QEMU

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.

Mar 28, 2022
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.

Mar 24, 2022
Hardware acceleration in the Age of Functions

The debate on how to deploy applications, monoliths or micro services, is in full swing. Part of this discussion relates to how the new paradigm incorporates support for accessing accelerators, e.g. GPUs, FPGAs. That kind of support has been made available to traditional programming models the last couple of decades and its tooling has evolved to be stable and standardized.
Jun 1, 2020
Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

Lightweight virtualization is a natural fit for low power devices and, so, seeing that the extremely popular Raspberry Pi line got an upgrade, we were very keen on trying the newly released Raspberry Pi 4 model B.
Jul 10, 2019