Table of Contents¶
Note:: This guide used to contain an end-to-end flow to build a custom Kata containers root filesystem with QAT out-of-tree SR-IOV virtual function driver and run QAT enabled containers. The former is no longer necessary so the instructions are dropped. If the use-case is still of interest, please file an issue in either of the QAT Kubernetes specific repos linked below.
Introduction¶
Intel® QuickAssist Technology (QAT) provides hardware acceleration for security (cryptography) and compression. Kata Containers can enable these acceleration functions for containers using QAT SR-IOV with the support from Intel QAT Device Plugin for Kubernetes or Intel QAT DRA Resource Driver for Kubernetes.
More Information¶
Intel® QuickAssist Technology at 01.org
Intel® QuickAssist Technology Engine for OpenSSL
Intel Device Plugin for Kubernetes