containerd Insights

What is containerd?

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. containerd manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision. It is commonly used as the underlying runtime for container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.

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What other technologies are related to containerd?

containerd Competitor Technologies

CRI-O

CRI-O is a container runtime interface implementation, serving a similar purpose as containerd by interfacing with Kubernetes.

mentioned alongside containerd in 21% (143) of relevant job posts

Podman

Podman is a container engine that can be used instead of Docker and can interface with container runtimes. It's an alternative solution.

mentioned alongside containerd in 2% (312) of relevant job posts

Docker

Docker is a container platform, but can make use of containerd. However it's mostly a competitor because of the container orchestration functions it offers.

mentioned alongside containerd in 0% (2k) of relevant job posts

LXC

LXC (Linux Containers) is a containerization platform that provides operating-system-level virtualization, similar to containerd. Therefore, it can be considered a competitor, although it has different features.

mentioned alongside containerd in 2% (60) of relevant job posts