Contrast

Contrast is a confidential computing solution that enables organizations to run Kubernetes workloads with hardware-based security, ensuring data remains encrypted at all times, at rest, in transit, and in use. Built on Kata Containers and leveraging AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX confidential computing technologies, Contrast executes your pods inside confidential micro-VMs that provide strong isolation from the underlying infrastructure. This revolutionary approach removes cloud providers, datacenter employees, privileged administrators, and malicious co-tenants from your trusted computing base (TCB), protecting your most sensitive workloads from infrastructure-level threats while maintaining full compatibility with your existing containers through a seamless lift-and-shift approach.

Contrast delivers comprehensive security features including runtime memory encryption for all pods, automated PKI and mTLS for encrypted pod-to-pod communication with workload certificates, and support for encrypted integrity-protected state disks. The platform provides verifiable security through workload attestation at the Kubernetes pod level (including container images), transitive attestation across multi-pod deployments, and third-party audit capabilities. Runtime policies enforce strict isolation between containers, pods, and the Kubernetes control plane, ensuring zero-trust security throughout your deployment.

Designed for enterprise adoption, Contrast integrates seamlessly into existing Kubernetes workflows as a day-2 operation on managed Kubernetes services or bare-metal clusters. Common use cases include securing sensitive workloads during cloud migration, protecting intellectual property and customer data in SaaS offerings, enabling multi-party computation for secure data collaboration, meeting stringent regulatory compliance requirements, and shielding applications from internal threats including your own cluster administrators. With minimal changes to your deployment processes, Contrast provides enterprise-grade confidential computing capabilities that transform how you protect cloud-native applications.