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id: intro
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# Welcome to Constellation! 🎉
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Constellation is the first Confidential Kubernetes platform!
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Constellation leverages confidential computing to isolate entire Kubernetes clusters and all workloads from the rest of the cloud infrastructure.
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From the inside, it's a fully-featured, [certified](https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/), Kubernetes engine.
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From the outside, it's an end to end isolated, always encrypted stronghold. A Confidential Cloud in the public cloud.
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Constellation is open source and enterprise-ready, tailored for unleashing the power of confidential computing for all your workloads at scale.
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For a brief introduction to the Confidential Kubernetes concept, read the [introduction](overview/confidential-kubernetes.md).
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For more elaborate overviews of Constellation's, see the [architecture](architecture/overview.md) section.
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## Features
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Constellation's main features are:
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* The only cloud agnostic Confidential Kubernetes platform
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* Verifiable integrity and confidentiality protection of the entire Kubernetes cluster
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* High-available, enterprise-ready Kubernetes engine
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* Memory runtime encryption of all Kubernetes nodes
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* Network encryption for the node to node traffic. Including the pod network.
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* [Persistent volume](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/) encryption for block storage
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* Key management for transparent network and storage encryption
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* CC-optimized, fully measured, and integrity-protected node OS
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* Kubernetes node attestation
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* Dynamic cluster autoscaling with autonomous node attestation
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* Supply chain protection with [sigstore](https://www.sigstore.dev/)
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## Getting started
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Sounds great, how can I try this?
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Constellation can be [deployed](getting-started/install.md) in minutes to your favorite infrastructure provider :rocket:
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## Where does it fit
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Constellation is the Kubernetes platform for secure, confidential cloud computing.
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When moving workloads to the cloud most enterprises are facing the following challenges:
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* How to **prevent unauthorized access** from hackers, cloud administrators, or governments?
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* How to **ensure compliance** with privacy laws (e.g. GDPR) and industry-specific regulation (e.g. HIPAA)?
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* How to **implement cloud security at the root** -- without simply adding "yet another tool"?
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Constellation is designed to fundamentally change the playing field when it comes to cloud migration.
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By leveraging confidential computing hardware capabilities it solves these challenges at the root.
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