Cluster Setup

Cluster prerequisites

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Prerequisites

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K8s

Confidential Containers requires Kubernetes. A cluster must be installed before installing the Helm charts. Many different clusters can be used but they should meet the following requirements.

The minimum Kubernetes version is 1.24
Cluster must use containerd. Note: cri-o is not tested with the Helm charts for baremetal deployments.
At least one node has the label node.kubernetes.io/worker.
SELinux is not enabled.
Helm 3.8+ is installed.

Note

Kind and Minikube are not tested anywhere in the project, and those are not encouraged to be used as QEMU is known to not work with them.

Last modified January 15, 2026: docs: Add Kind/Minikube warning (97e35ce)