Name: Integrating Confidential Computing Into Cloud Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities - Carlos Bilbao, DigitalOcean
Start: 2025-06-26T16:15:00-0600
End: 2025-06-26T16:45:00-0600

June 26 - 27 | Denver, Colorado
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Thursday June 26, 2025 4:15pm - 4:45pm MDT

Room BBB 3G+3H

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.

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Carlos Bilbao

Sr. Systems Engineer, DigitalOcean

Carlos Bilbao, PhD., is a Linux kernel engineer interested in confidential computing, virtualization, and resource management research. He contributed to the development of the first threat model for confidential computing in virtual environments, which was accepted into the kernel... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:15pm - 4:45pm MDT
Room BBB 3G+3H

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