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Introduction

containerd Overview

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. It is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. It manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, including image transfer and storage, container execution and supervision, low-level storage, and network attachments.

containerd has the following features:

  • Container lifecycle management (from container creation to container destruction)
  • Container image push and pull
  • Storage management (image and container data storage management)
  • runC support (interaction with container runtime such as runC)
  • Management of network and container network interfaces

You can install containerd by using a command line tool or compiling the source code.

Programming language: Golang

Brief description: open-source container runtime

Open source license: The containerd code library complies with Apache 2.0.

The software installation depends on related components, including Go, Btrfs, protoc, and runC.

Recommended Version

1.4