Building Trust into OS images for Confidential Containers

This article was originally posted on confidentialcontainers.org by Magnus Kulke. Read the original article on confidentialcontainers.org. The source for this content can be found here. Containers and OS Images Confidential Containers using Kata-Containers are launched in a Confidential Virtual Machine (CVM). Those CVMs require a minimal Linux system which…

25/03/2024Linux and Open Source Blog

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