RunX is available in tech preview

Devblog Oct 19, 2021

For those who are interested in hardened container security, it's time to play with RunX, directly inside XCP-ng! And we delivered it only one month after our initial announcement 😎

A quick reminder about RunX: it's an OCI runtime spec compliant container runtime, running containers as virtual machines.

Check our previous blog post for more details: RunX, next generation secured containers.

Want to try?

You just need a test host running XCP-ng 8.2. Then, go in our forum thread link below, follow our install documentation and report back! Ronan, Benjamin and I will be there to assist 💪

RunX: tech preview
RunX tech preview What is RunX? See https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2021/09/14/runx-next-generation-secured-containers/ for more details. Do I need it? If you want to test high level of security with your containers, yes. Or if you like to play with shiny new te...

A big thanks to Ronan and Benjamin for their incredible integration work in that short time frame. And obviously Stefano from Xilinx for the initial concept/idea!

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Olivier Lambert

Vates CEO & co-founder, Xen Orchestra and XCP-ng project creator. Enthusiast entrepreneur and Open Source advocate. A very happy Finnish Lapphund owner.