Confidential computing for self-hosted communities
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Is there any reasonable way to enable users of a UNIX-like machine to run workloads that users with root on the machine cannot snoop nor tamper with?

I’d be looking for a "complete" package; preferably a EU-based VPS provider (or bare metal if costs are reasonable) + whatever is needed to run the workloads. (Processes would be ideal, but I expect this can only be done with virtual machines? This might require nested virtualization under a VPS?)

The acceptance criteria is that people can run services in a way that even users with root on the machine could not read secrets, manipulate binaries, etc. Users should be able to verify somehow this- I expect that confidential computing hardware can generate some signature that can be verified to belong to the hardware manufacturer.

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