Confidential Kubernetes: Use Confidential Virtual Machines and Enclaves to improve your cluster security

Authors: Fabian Kammel (Edgeless Systems), Mikko Ylinen (Intel), Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (IBM) In this blog post, we will introduce the concept of Confidential Computing (CC) to improve any computing environment's security and privacy properties. Further, we will show how the Cloud-Native ecosystem, particularly Kubernetes, can benefit from the new compute paradigm. Confidential Computing is a concept that has been introduced previously in the cloud-native world. The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) is a project community in the Linux Foundation that already worked on Defining and Enabling Confidential Computing.