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Welcome to Confidential Containers

Confidential Containers is an open source community working to enable cloud native confidential computing by leveraging Trusted Execution Environments to protect containers and data.

Goals:

  • Allow cloud native application owners to enforce application security requirements
  • Transparent deployment of unmodified containers
  • Support for multiple TEE and hardware platforms
  • A trust model which separates Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) from guest applications
  • Least privilege principles for the Kubernetes Cluster administration capabilities which impact delivering Confidential Computing for guest application or data inside the TEE.

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Confidential Containers is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.

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  1. confidential-containers confidential-containers Public

    Confidential Containers Community

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  2. operator operator Public

    Operator to deploy confidential containers runtime

    Go 132 67

  3. guest-components guest-components Public

    Confidential Containers Guest Tools and Components

    Rust 96 107

  4. cloud-api-adaptor cloud-api-adaptor Public

    Ability to create Kata pods using cloud provider APIs aka the peer-pods approach

    Go 55 101

  5. trustee trustee Public

    Attestation and Secret Delivery Components

    Rust 91 107

  6. enclave-cc enclave-cc Public

    Process-based Confidential Container Runtime

    Go 81 40

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  • guest-components Public

    Confidential Containers Guest Tools and Components

    confidential-containers/guest-components’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 96 Apache-2.0 107 61 13 Updated Apr 29, 2025
  • cloud-api-adaptor Public

    Ability to create Kata pods using cloud provider APIs aka the peer-pods approach

    confidential-containers/cloud-api-adaptor’s past year of commit activity
    Go 55 Apache-2.0 101 185 (8 issues need help) 17 Updated Apr 29, 2025
  • operator Public

    Operator to deploy confidential containers runtime

    confidential-containers/operator’s past year of commit activity
    Go 132 Apache-2.0 67 58 (3 issues need help) 5 Updated Apr 29, 2025
  • td-shim Public

    Confidential Containers Shim Firmware

    confidential-containers/td-shim’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 111 60 32 10 Updated Apr 28, 2025
  • trustee-operator Public

    Operator to manage the lifecycle of Trustee (KBS)

    confidential-containers/trustee-operator’s past year of commit activity
    Go 9 Apache-2.0 20 6 1 Updated Apr 28, 2025
  • trustee Public

    Attestation and Secret Delivery Components

    confidential-containers/trustee’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 91 Apache-2.0 107 82 20 Updated Apr 25, 2025
  • confidentialcontainers.org Public

    Confidential Containers website

    confidential-containers/confidentialcontainers.org’s past year of commit activity
    SCSS 5 Apache-2.0 17 15 3 Updated Apr 24, 2025
  • enclave-cc Public

    Process-based Confidential Container Runtime

    confidential-containers/enclave-cc’s past year of commit activity
    Go 81 Apache-2.0 40 19 6 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • confidential-containers Public

    Confidential Containers Community

    confidential-containers/confidential-containers’s past year of commit activity
    261 Apache-2.0 58 96 (1 issue needs help) 5 Updated Mar 27, 2025
  • confidential-containers.github.io Public

    Confidential Containers CI Dashboard

    confidential-containers/confidential-containers.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 0 0 0 0 Updated Feb 12, 2025