Kata Containers is a novel implementation of a lightweight virtual machine that seamlessly integrates within the container ecosystem. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers—including popular orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (k8s)—while also delivering the security advantages of VMs.

The Kata Containers project has six components: Agent, Runtime, Proxy, Shim, Kernel and packaging of QEMU 2.9. It is designed to be architecture agnostic, run on multiple hypervisors and be compatible with the OCI specification for Docker containers and CRI for Kubernetes.

Kata Containers combines technology from Intel® Clear Containers and Hyper runV. The code is hosted on Github under the Apache 2 license and the project is managed by the OpenStack Foundation.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/kata-containers

This actually looks really slick. Do you have more information on how this works under the hood? I found https://katacontainers.io/media/uploads/katacontainers/uploa... but it is a little light on details.

For example, memory and storage - with a traditional VM solution, you must allocate the desired memory and storage at the time of VM creation. With a traditional container solution, the container uses only what it needs. Where does Kata fall on this line?