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We introduce a few terms here for better understanding of this proposal
Edge Container Objects (ECO) - A VM or Container deployed on an EVE instance.
ECO Images - The image file for a particular VM or Container. The image that is used for deploying the VM or Container for the first time in the production environment.
Mutated ECO Image: As the ECO starts running on an EVE instance, it continuously changes its runtime state, and it starts accumulating data feeds from its external interfaces. All this is stored on its virtual disk. We call this virtual disk that contains the modified ECO state as mutated ECO image
Local File Store - Space on the permanent storage disk on EVE instance that is consumable from ECO, e.g. /persist/img . A file store need not be a secure file system.
Vault - A Secure secure version of a Local File Store, where the files are encrypted using filesystem encryption support (e.g. fscrypt)
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