[kata-dev] kata in non-baremetal environments

Ralf Haferkamp rhafer at suse.com
Tue Feb 4 10:14:46 UTC 2020


Hi,

it seems that nowadays a large chunk of k8s deployments being run in
virtualized enviroments (i.e. some form of public/private IaaS system). 
So using kata-containers in such an enviroment means that the VMs 
spawned by kata are running nested inside the VMs of the k8s cluster.

Given that nested virtualization adds quite a bit of overhead (in 
certain cases I believe) and that it still seems to be considered 
experimental [0]. Is that really the way to go or is kata-containers 
really more just aiming for baremetal k8s deployments?

regards,
	Ralf

[0] https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Nested_Guests





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