Announcement of Containerd Donation to CNCF Cloud Native Conference Berlin 2017

1. Docker donates containerd to CNCF
Patrick Chanezon, @chanezon, Docker Inc.
March 2017

4. containerd: What is a Core Container Runtime?
Component that provides core primitives to manage containers on a host
• Container execution and supervision
• Image distribution
• Network Interfaces & Management
• Local storage
• Native plumbing level API
Built by Docker with input from five largest cloud providers
• Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft

5. Docker Engine = Container Platform for
Complete Distributed App Lifecycle
Docker Differentiators
SwarmKit
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6. containerd already widely used through Docker
E-Commerce Media Life Sciences/Healthcare Finance
Vertical Search IT SaaS IaaS PaaSGovernment
Millions of installs, in all industry segments

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9. InfraKit

10. containerd’s role in Container Ecosystem

11. containerd 1.0 planned for Q2 2017

12. containerd community
• 141 commits per month (avg)
• 17 unique contributors per month (avg)
• 7 new contributors in past 30 days
• 8 maintainers, from 5 companies

13. 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

14. Want to contribute or learn more?
containerd devs at Cloud Native Conference
@justincormack
• Justin Cormack’s talk Thursday 11:30-12:05
“Containerd: The Universal Container Runtime”
• containerd Salon Wednesday 1:55 pm - 3:15 pm in C04
• Next containerd summit at DockerCon in Austin April 20th
during Docker Internals summit
@dmcgowan @estep