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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2019
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Anand Ozarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Imam Sheikh, Redwood City, CA (US);
EQUINIX, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, techniques are described for an encryption key namespace of a kernel, executed by a host computing device, the encryption key namespace having a configuration file that stores an association of a key identifier and a container identifier by which the host computing device can obtain a data encryption key to use for decrypting/encrypting data for the container identified by the container identifier. In this way, a user may associate a container (or container image) with a unique key identifier. By configuring this association in the encryption key namespace for the container, the container may be identified and automatically associated with a key identifier for the appropriate key for decrypting/encrypting data for the container. The host computing device may then obtain, from a key management service, the key using the key identifier.