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Integrating Confidential Computing Into Cloud Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities – Carlos Bilbao, DigitalOcean
As confidential computing (CoCo) tech matures, integrating it into the cloud presents both technical challenges and opportunities. Specifically, the deployment of CoCo in a multi-tenant cloud infrastructure involves technical hurdles, such as remote boot and attestation, the impact on product aspects like provisioning time and live migration, tool compatibility, and constraints in fleet observability and debugging — such as root cause analysis of guest kernel crashes (with customer permission).
In our previous presentation at LSS, we discussed the disconnect between CoCo efforts and the broader Linux kernel community. Since then, the desire to harden guest VMs against confidentiality threats has grown stronger, and a key question now is how to integrate CoCo into the cloud. Drawing from my professional experience, I’d like to spark and guide a discussion on the practical steps required to achieve this.
