Kata-Containers

Isolated, hardware-accelerated functions on Jetson AGX Orin

Following up on a successful VM boot on a Jetson AGX Orin, we continue exploring the capabilities of this edge device, focusing on the cloud-native aspect of application deployment.

Boot a VM on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin

In 2022, NVIDIA released the Jetson Orin modules, specifically designed for extreme computation at the Edge. The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin modules deliver up to 275 TOPS of AI performance with power configurable between 15W and 60W.

Kata Containers: Build and configure Firecracker

Picking up from where we left in our previous post, we will now install AWS Firecracker and configure Kata Containers to use it as their hypervisor.

Kata Containers: Build and configure QEMU

Picking up from where we left in our previous post, we will now install QEMU and configure Kata Containers to use QEMU as their hypervisor.

Build Kata Containers from source on x86 and arm64

Kata Containers enable containers to be seamlessly executed in Virtual Machines. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers, while also delivering the security advantages of VMs. Kata Containers is the result of merging two existing open source projects: Intel Clear Containers and Hyper runV.