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Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

18 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 0 stories, 18 comments · first 2021-04-09 · latest 2026-05-19

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  1. …while and Kata containers is another popular one https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers
    comment by waz0wski · 2026-05-19 · in Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised
  2. …to see this utilizes kata-containers project alongside virtualization.framework. Cool project. https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/
    comment by waz0wski · 2025-09-15 · in macOS Tahoe
  3. …a user-space application rather than a reliable platform with harder resource isolation guarantees. https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main...
    comment by burnt-resistor · 2025-06-24 · in New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
  4. …other upstart VM's Dragonball, & StratoVirt). In us by for example the CNCF Confidential Containers https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main... https://confidentialcontainers.org/ There's also smaller efforts such as…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-05-30 · in Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
  5. …be using? There's already some memory sharing available using DAX in Kata Containers at least: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main...
    comment by ecnahc515 · 2024-07-25 · in Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
  6. …tps://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container... - https://github.com/kuasar-io/kuasar - https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers - https://github.com/QuarkContainer/Quark - https://github.com/google/gvisor -…
    comment by flanked-evergl · 2024-05-14 · in My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
  7. Hasn't Kata containers solved this probl: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers ?
    comment by jmakov · 2024-01-03 · in Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
  8. …image and guest agent to run multiple isolated containers [1]. [0] https://katacontainers.io/ [1] https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main...
    comment by kuhsaft · 2023-12-21 · in Fly Kubernetes
  9. …pretty sparse or outdated. It still is, though it works somewhat seamlessly when installing with https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main... Though only one of the hypervisors works well.
    comment by flanked-evergl · 2023-07-17 · in Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
  10. If you install kata with https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main... Then you just use it with: docker run --runtime io.containerd.kata.v2 --rm -it hello-world
    comment by flanked-evergl · 2023-07-17 · in Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
  11. …so a fixed allocation isn't needed, reducing over provisioning https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/d50f... uses virtio-mem
    comment by nimish · 2023-07-17 · in Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
  12. …MAP_SHARED shared memory option on the host allows the host to efficiently share pages. From https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/tree/main...
    comment by jitl · 2023-07-17 · in Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
  13. https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases
    comment by moondev · 2023-02-28 · in Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)
  14. …leaner than QEMU. Very neat stuff. [0] https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor [1] https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers
    comment by w7 · 2022-05-04 · in Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (2020)
  15. …host" while providing good isolation. Good discussion, please let me know of any more feedback. [1] https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/20... [2] https://github.com/daniel-noland/docker-in-kata [3]…
    comment by ctalledo · 2022-01-18 · in Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines
  16. …as a containerd[2] backend [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/kata-containers-1-5-... [2] https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main...
    comment by badLiveware · 2021-10-18 · in Firecracker MicroVMs
  17. …feel even more comfortable than when I was running a traditional VM+VLAN per exposed service. [0] https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers [1] https://github.com/cilium/cilium [2] https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
    comment by w7 · 2021-10-13 · in Container security best practices: Ultimate guide
  18. …any of it), and/or what was turned down. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745514 [1]: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers [2]: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/2fc7... [3]:…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-04-09 · in Docker without Docker