US Patent 12007891 Storage deduplication for containers with encrypted storage

Technology for enabling a kernel to perform data deduplication on encrypted storage of a container. An example method may involve: enabling, by a kernel, a guest program of a container to access a first storage block of a first container and a second storage block of a second container; receiving, by the kernel from the guest program, an indication that the first storage block and the second storage block are duplicate storage blocks; and updating the first storage block or the second storage block to cause the duplicate storage blocks to reference a common storage location.