Definition
Confidential computing protects data in use via hardware trusted execution environments and related container stacks — enabling workloads (including AI inference) to process sensitive data without exposing it to the infrastructure operator.
Key Points
- kata-containers remains a foundation for Confidential Containers (CoCo) ecosystems
- NVIDIA Confidential Containers Reference Architecture builds on Kata
- Edgeless Systems Contrast / Privatemode AI cite Kata pod-in-VM model
- Overlaps with agent-sandboxing for high-risk agent fleets