What is containerd?
An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness, and portability
containerd is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses containerd?
Companies
11 companies reportedly use containerd in their tech stacks, including bigin, nference, and Thybit.
Developers
67 developers on StackShare have stated that they use containerd.
Pros of containerd
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containerd's Features
- OCI Image Spec support
- OCI Runtime Spec support (aka runC)
- Image push and pull support
- Container runtime and lifecycle support
- Network primitives for creation, modification, and deletion of interfaces
- Multi-tenant supported with CAS storage for global images
- Management of network namespaces containers to join existing namespaces
containerd Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to containerd?
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
rkt
Rocket is a cli for running App Containers. The goal of rocket is to be composable, secure, and fast.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
LXC
LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
