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.
Key Features
- 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
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Related Software
| Containers | |
|---|---|
| Docker | Create, deploy, and run applications by using containers |
| LXC | Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features |
| containerd | Industry-standard container runtime |
| Apptainer | Optimized for compute focused enterprise and HPC workloads |
| Kata Containers | Uses a hypervisor to provide isolation when spawning containers |
| OpenVz | Container-based virtualization |
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