Kata Containers runtime
creates a Virtual Machine to isolate a set of
container workloads. The Virtual Machine requires a operating system
operating (Guest OS
) to boot and create containers inside the guest
environment.
This repository contains tools to create a Guest OS
for Kata Containers
.
This section describe the terms used as along all this document.
Guest OS
It is the collection of a virtual disk
or disk image
and kernel
that in conjunction work as an operating system and it is different than
the host operating system.
Virtual disk
orGuest Image
It is a virtual disk witch contains a rootfs
that will be used to boot
a Virtual Machine by for the Kata Containers runtime
.
rootfs
The root filesystem or rootfs is the filesystem that is contained in the
guest root directory. It can be built from any Linux Distribution but
must provide at least the following components:
- Kata agent
- A init
system (for example systemd
) witch allow to start
Kata agent at boot time.