OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

containerd – industry-standard container runtime

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability.

containerd is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. It manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond.

containerd fully supports the OCI runtime specification for running containers. It has built-in functions to help you generate runtime specifications based on images as well as custom parameters.

In containerd, a container is a metadata object. Resources such as an OCI runtime specification, image, root filesystem, and other metadata can be attached to a container.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • OCI Image Spec support.
  • Image push and pull support.
  • Network primitives for creation, modification, and deletion of interfaces.
  • Multi-tenant supported with CAS storage for global images.
  • OCI Runtime Spec support (aka runC).
  • Container runtime and lifecycle support.
  • Management of network namespaces containers to join existing namespaces.

Website: containerd.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: containerd Authors
License: Apache License 2.0

containerd is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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Ricardo
Ricardo
1 month ago

Hi, the Website link is wrong