[kata-dev] Confidential Containers: Naming

Dr. David Alan Gilbert dgilbert at redhat.com
Mon Sep 13 17:41:08 UTC 2021


* Samuel Ortiz via kata-dev (kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io) wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> Naming is hard, we all know it. And the time has come to pick a name for our future confidential containers GitHub repo/organization.
> With other usual suspects, we’ve come up with a list of names for that project. This is copied from the confidential containers meeting document[1]:
> 
> 	• Concontainer(s)
> 	• Conficon
> 	• Confibox
> 	• Confidcon
> 	• con-con
> 	• Con-box
> 	• Qonfid
> 	• Confidential-containers
> 	• Blackbox
> 	• Blackhole
> 	• Skelduz Containers
> 	• Janjira Containers
> 	• Serrana Containers
> 	• Nesta Containers
> 	• Knox Containers
> 
> In order to choose one name, I’m going to create a poll and let everyone vote in a few days.
> But before doing so I’d like to check if there are more proposals. So if you can think of any other name, please add it to [1]. Be creative :-)

The Linux kernel is starting to use 'Coco' as an abbreviation for
Confidential Computing.  It's short and easy.

( 'cocon' is too close to cocoon that already exists.
  'coconut' is already taken on github. )

Dave


> Cheer,
> Samuel.
> 
> 
> [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E3GLCzNgrcigUlgWAZYlgqNTdVwiMwCRTJ0QnJhLZGA/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> 
> 
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