Where Kata Breaks Down and Edera Holds Up
Enterprise deployment calls for production-grade solutions
Why Edera
Container isolation shouldn't feel like a side quest.
Kata is an open source project. Edera is a production-grade product built for teams that need isolation to actually work across their entire fleet.
Deep Observability
Per-zone kernel metrics via Prometheus. Memory pressure (PSI), page faults, TCP retransmits – all isolated to your workload.
Simple Deployment
AMI swap + YAML annotation. No nested virt. No special nodes. Runs anywhere containers run.
Enterprise Adoption
Xen and KVM – choose the technology your team knows. Both fully supported.
FAQ
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Kata is free to download, not free to operate. Engineering time on special nodes, debugging across layers, validating updates, building custom observability – that adds up. Edera is a product: deploy it, operate it, get support.
Kata hides the VM boundary through runtime shims. Edera makes it explicit – zones, a lightweight VM with its own dedicated Linux kernel, are first-class. That architectural choice shows up in every on-call, every scaling event, every incident.
No. Edera replaces the runtime model entirely – each node runs zones, the boundary is explicit, and the system is purpose-built for fleet-scale operation with observability as a core capability, not a bolt-on.
COMPARISON
See the Difference Side-by-Side
We don’t believe in trade-offs. Edera delivers production-grade container isolation with full observability, simplified operations, and zero trade-offs.
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FEATURES
Which Is Right for You?
Choose Kata if you:
Have deep VM/hypervisor expertise
Can build custom observability into guests
Run small-scale, experimental deployments
Want to try different hypervisors
Choose Edera if you:
Need production isolation across your fleet
Want observability into actual workload behavior
Value operational simplicity
Run multi-tenant infrastructure
Need runtime security monitoring
Require enterprise support
Are building AI agent infrastructure
Must meet compliance requirements
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