Community Presentation: containerd

What is containerd�containerd in the container ecosystem�containerd architecture�containerd community�Why CNCF

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containerd: What is a Core Container Runtime?

Component that provides core primitives to manage containers on a host

• Container execution and supervision
• Image distribution
• Networking
• Local storage
• Native plumbing level API

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containerd’s role in Container Ecosystem

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containerd 1.0 planned for Q2 2017

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containerd community

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https://www.openhub.net/p/containerd

containerd community

• Since starting on the 1.0 Roadmap
• 141 commits per month (avg)
• 17 unique contributors per month (avg)
• 7 new contributors in past 30 days
• 8 maintainers, from 5 companies�https://github.com/docker/containerd/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
• Weekly reports�https://github.com/docker/containerd/tree/master/reports
• containerd Summit Feb 28th, 50 attendees https://blog.docker.com/2017/02/containerd-summit-recap-slides-videos-meeting-notes/
• Next containerd Summit at DockerCon April 20th�http://2017.dockercon.com/summits/��

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why CNCF?

Alignment with CNCF goals

• cloud native: container packaged, dynamically managed, micro-services oriented
• containerd’s goal is to be a great core container runtime for cloud native systems

Alignment with CNCF projects

• uses GRPC, exposes metrics in Prometheus format
• designed to be a great replacement for Docker as Kubernetes CRI implementation

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