Features

Primitives provided by Confidential Containers

In addition to running pods inside of enclaves, Confidential Containers provides several other features that can be used to protect workloads and data. Securing complex workloads often requires using some of these features.

Most features depend on and require attestation, which is described in the next section.


Authenticated Registries

Use private registries with Confidential Containers

Encrypted Images

Procedures to encrypt and consume OCI images in a TEE

Local Registries

Pull containers from self-hosted registries

Protected Storage

Add protected volumes to a pod

Sealed Secrets

Generate and deploy protected Kubernetes secrets

Signed Images

Procedures to generate and deploy signed OCI images with CoCo

Last modified November 8, 2024: docs: new structure for docs (b121158)