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Chapter 1. Overview

Learn about Red Hat build of Trustee features and terminology. You must ensure that your OpenShift Container Platform environment is compatible.

1.1. About Red Hat build of Trustee
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Red Hat build of Trustee is a critical component of the confidential containers solution for OpenShift sandboxed containers. Red Hat build of Trustee enables secure management and attestation of confidential workloads running within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) on a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

Red Hat build of Trustee is a service that facilitates the deployment and management of confidential containers. It provides attestation and key management services to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of workloads running in TEEs.

You deploy Red Hat build of Trustee on a separate OpenShift Container Platform cluster in a trusted environment, not on the cluster that hosts the primary workload. This separation enhances security by isolating sensitive operations from the untrusted cloud infrastructure.

Red Hat build of Trustee performs the following key functions:

  • Verifies the integrity of the TEE and the workloads running within it, ensuring that it only executes trusted code and data.
  • Securely manages cryptographic keys and secrets required by confidential containers, protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access.
  • Simplifies the configuration of TEEs through the KbsConfig custom resource, enabling seamless integration with OpenShift Container Platform workflows.

By leveraging Red Hat build of Trustee, OpenShift Container Platform users can deploy confidential workloads using familiar tools while maintaining strong security guarantees, even on shared or third-party infrastructure.

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