2025-02-27 Linaro Data Center Group steering committee Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Meeting Date: 2025-02-27

Attendance
Steering Committee Members 

Guests

Meeting Logistics

When? 4th Thursday of each month.

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 Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes: 2025-01-23 Linaro Data Center Group steering committee Meeting Agenda/Minutes

• Project updates

• Events

• AOB

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Action Items

Minutes

• Project updates

  • Deploy CCA on Arm Platforms (DCAP)

    • Updates since last meeting:

      • Branches and build instructions:

        • We updated our branches to version cca/v7! Please refer to the documentation and in case you have any doubts, please, let us know.

        • Special thanks to Fujitsu for all the issues reported. That helped us improve our documentation and fix some bugs.

      • Device assignment

        • Actively working with Arm on this. Every other week sync and analyzing QEMU patches from community.

      • Kata containers:

        • Re-enabled Kata Kubernetes CI for Arm64 (still skipping few tests).

      • Confidential Containers:

        • Update Trustee fork to match veraison v.0.0.2410.

      •  CI:

        • Finished the investigation on what it would take to have a proper CI infrastructure for the whole CCA stack we are developing.

    • Next tasks:

      • Add support for RME 1.1 new features in the CCA software stack:

        • Device assignment.

        • Memory Encryption.

        • Planes.

      • Kata containers:

        • Fix the three tests that we are skipping at the moment on the Kata Kubernetes CI.

        • Work with the community to resume the discussion on Kata support for CCA.

      •  Standards:

        • Continue the work on CCA Token standardization.

        • Bootstrap the Endorsement API discussions.

      • Veraison:

        • Add async support for rust-apiclient.

        • Integrate Veraison with Confidential Containers (CoCo) CCA native verifier.

      • Kata containers:

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

        • Fix an issue in which QEMU fails to build in Kata-deploy.

        • Make sure Kata-deploy works for Arm CCA.

      •  CI:

        • Build a CI infrastructure for the whole CCA stack we are developing in the upcoming months.

  • Performance Optimization (PO)

    • Updates since last meeting:

      • 37 applications, 6 candidates selected, 3 interview so far.

      • Job position to backfill previous engineer is open here.

    • Next tasks:

      • Present an offer to a candidate next week.

  • System Ready Compliant Platform Collaboration (SRCPC)

    • Updates since last meeting:

      • Linaro Engineering decided not to backfill previous Red Hat assignee for this project.

      • Conclusion: project will be closed unless a member step up and provide an assignee to work on it.

  • Big Data and Data Science (BDDS)

    • Updates since last meeting:

      • Bigtop Manager:

        • Multiple updates on Bigtop Manager, in preparation for the 1.0 release. March target for the release might slip because of a number of front-end features that still need to be developed. Working with the community front-end developer on a new plan.

    • Next tasks:

      • Release Bigtop Manager 1.0.0.

      • Add support for Gluten and Velox on Arm64 and openEuler, making sure we also enable any performance optimizations on these projects.

  • Enhanced Software-Defined-Storage on Arm Servers (STOR)

    • Updates since last meeting:

      • No completed tasks (Lunar new year, vacation).

    • Next tasks:

      • JuiceFS on Arm64 and openEuler enablement.

• Events

  • FOSDEM: 1-2 February, 2025, Bruxelles, Belgium

    • Attestation devroom

      • Thomas Fossati co-hosted it.

    • Confidential Computing devroom

      • Multiple submissions accepted: Mathieu Poirier (Linaro), Jean-Phillippe Brucker (Arm), Paul Howard (Arm).

    • Very good engagement in all sessions. Endorsement API meetup on Friday very successful. Planning an Endorsement API Hackathon for Tuesday before Connect.

  • Open Confidential Computing Conference (OC3): 27 March, 2025, hybrid from Berlin, Germany

    • Thomas Fossati (Linaro) is in the program committee.

    • Linaro and Arm got their proposal accept. Fujitsu also presenting.

  • KubeCon Europe: 1-4 April, 2025, London, UK

    • Linaro submitted a presentation proposal around the work we are doing to support Kata Containers and Confidential Containers with CCA, including the remote attestation part. Not approved.

    • Still looking forward to attend if can collaborate with a member in their booth.

  • OCP EMEA Regional Summit: 29-30 April, 2025, Dublin, Ireland

  • Linaro Connect: 14-16 May, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal

    • Lots of talks submitted! Thanks!

    • Endorsement API Hackathon planned 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 the work we have been doing since last year.

    • Arm and Fujitsu also attending.

  • 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