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 Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes: 2025-03-27 Linaro Data Center Group steering committee Meeting Agenda/Minutes
• Strategy and direction mid-year review
• Project Updates
• Events
• AOB

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Minutes

• Strategy and direction mid-year review

• Project Updates
  • Deploy CCA on Arm Platforms (DCAP)
    • Updates since last meeting:
      • Instructions at Building an RME stack for QEMU#Launching-a-Realm-guest-using-QEMU updated: code repository updated to cca/v8 branch. Still under validation.
      • Device assignment
        • Continued engagement with Arm.
        • Good progress overall on the attestation infrastructure in QEMU and no delays so far. Linaro's work can be tracked from

          Jira Legacy
          server System Jira serverId 59107c6f-1e52-32bc-b58f-400d54bba998 key DCAP-124

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        • Awaiting TF-A and TF-RMM patches from Arm by end of April to proceed with QEMU base support enablement.
      • Planes
        • Paolo Bonzini submitted patches to KVM adding support for planes in all relevant architectures (https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/kvm/list/?series=949026).
      • Kata containers
        • Fixed

          Jira Legacy
          server System Jira serverId 59107c6f-1e52-32bc-b58f-400d54bba998 key DCAP-132

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      • Confidential Containers
        • Integrated Veraison with CoCo as a native verifier.
    • Next tasks:
      • Add support for RME 1.1 new features in the CCA software stack:
        • Device assignment.
        • Memory Encryption.
        • Planes.
      • Kata containers

        • Fix an issue where Kata with QEMU fails to launch an Arm guest (even non-confidential guests) with Kata Runtime-rs.

        • Set up Kata Arm64 runtime-rs testing job.
        • Enable cri-containerd job for Kata Arm64.
      • Standards
        • Continue the work on CCA Token standardization.
        • Endorsement API Workshop confirmed for 13th May.
  • Performance Optimization (PO)
    • Updates since last meeting:
      • Iakov Polyak started on 22nd April.
    • Next tasks:
      • Revisit project priorities (OpenSSL and libXSMM?).
      • Migrate backlog from 2024-09-26 Linaro Data Center Group steering committee Meeting Agenda/Minutes to Jira.
  • Big Data & Data Science (BDDS)
    • Updates since last meeting:
      • Bigtop Manager
        • 1.0 release announced today: https://lists.apache.org/thread/3gfk7c5kwl4n7h8g4f590j27j57tp3z6.
      • Gluten
        • Work currently blocked by Velox patches not accepted.
      • Velox
        • Awaiting community feedback on patches. Meta engineers driving the project are not answering community pings.
    • Next tasks:
      • Bigtop Manager
        • Discuss future roadmap with the community.
        • Integrate Bigtop Manager to openEuler's repository.
      •  Gluten
        • Enablement of Arm64 CI in the community.
      • Velox
        • Performance analysis.
  • Enhanced Software-Defined-Storage on Arm Servers (STOR)
    • Updates since last meeting:
      • SPDK
        • Working on patches that improve the performance on Arm64.
      •  JuiceFS
        • Working on performance analysis.
    • Next tasks:
      Linaro Ecosystem Dashboard (LED)
      • Updates since last meeting:
        • Blog postJuiceFS
          • Fix any performance issues found.
  • Events
    • Open Confidential Computing Conference (OC3): 27 March, 2025, hybrid from Berlin, Germany
      • Thomas Fossati (Linaro) is in the program committee.
      • Linaro and Arm had a joint presentation. Fujitsu also presented (and included a very nice demo on how CCA protects the Realm memory from the host)
      • Very interesting to see the number of talks related to remote attestation (6 in total).
    • KubeCon Europe: 1-4 April, 2025, London, UK
      
      • Arm was there.
    • openEuler Developer Day:
      
      • Linaro presented a poster on the work we are doing in the BDDS project.
    • OCP EMEA Regional Summit: 29-30 April, 2025, Dublin, Ireland
    • Linaro Connect: 14-16 May, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
      • Confidential Computing is the second most recurrent topic in the conference.
      • Endorsement API Hackathon planned confirmed for Tuesday, 13 May, 2025.
    • KubeCon China: 10-11 June, 2025, Hong Kong, China
    • Confidential Computing Summit: 17-18 June, 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA
      • Leonardo Garcia (Linaro) is in the program committee.
      • Linaro will submit a presentation proposal to update present an update to the work we have been doing since last year.
      • Arm and Fujitsu also attending.
    • OSS NA
    • OCP Global Summit: 14-16 October, 2025, San Jose, CA, USA
    • KubeCon North America: 10-13 November, 2025, Atlanta, GA, USA
    • Linux Plumbers: 11-13 December 2025, Tokyo, Japan
    • KVM Forum
    • openEuler SIG Gathering
    • openEuler Summit
    • IETF meetings
    • SystemArch AC meeting
    • China Lustre User Summit
    • Community Over Code Europe
    • Community Over Code North America
    • UXL conferences?
  • AOB