Docker containers are widely used to deploy applications in the cloud. Using Gramine Shielded Containers (GSC) we provide the infrastructure to deploy Docker containers protected by Intel SGX enclaves using the Gramine Library OS.
The GSC tool transforms a Docker image into a new image which includes the Gramine Library OS, manifest files, Intel SGX related information, and executes the application inside an Intel SGX enclave using the Gramine Library OS. It follows the common Docker approach to first build an image and subsequently run this image inside of a container. At first a Docker image has to be graminized via the gsc build command. When the graminized image should run within an Intel SGX enclave, the image has to be signed via a gsc sign-image command. Subsequently, the image can be run using docker run.
NOTE: As part of the gsc build step, GSC generates the manifest file with a list of trusted files (files with integrity protection). This list contains hashes of all files present in the original Docker image. Therefore, GSC's manifest creation capability depends on packaging of the original Docker image: if the original Docker image is bloated (contains unnecessary files), then the generated manifest will also be bloated. Though this doesn't worsen security guarantees of Gramine/GSC, it may affect startup performance. Please exercise care in pulling in only the dependencies truly required for your Docker image.
The official Gramine Library OS documentation can be found at https://gramine.readthedocs.io.
The official GSC documentation can be found at https://gramine-gsc.readthedocs.io.
We welcome contributions through GitHub pull requests. Please keep in mind that they are governed by the same rules as the main project.
For any questions, please send an email to support@gramine-project.io (public archive).
For bug reports, post an issue on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/gramineproject/gsc/issues.