Lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem
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
Details for kata-containers
License
Apache-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause OR BSD-3-Clause-Clear OR GPL-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1 OR MIT
Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install kata-containers
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
The packages for RHEL 8 and RHEL 7 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 8 and RHEL 7, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command: