A talk given at QCon NYC on Wednesday, June 27, 2018 in the Container track, focused on helping developers understand the inner workings of pluggable container runtimes in the Kubernetes world. The second half of this talk is not available in slide form, but should be available via QCon video. The non-slide talk content included hands-on-keyboard demonstrations of various tools which can be used to investigate and introspect kubelet and pod -> container runtime boundaries and details, all shown in IBM Cloud using the containerd runtime underneath a Kubernetes 1.11 cluster.