The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is an open-source community aiming to build vendor-neutral specifications for application container portability and manageability, supported by a certification program. The rapid increase in container usage has prompted extensive interest in OCI's standards, enabling portability across various systems without being tied to specific vendors. Key leadership and contributions from major organizations have led to milestones in specification development, with community engagement encouraged through involvement in initiatives and projects.

1. Open Container Initiative
Chris Aniszczyk (@cra)
Linux Foundation / OCI / CNCF

2. An open source community for building a vendor-neutral,
portable and open specification/runtime that delivers on
the promise of containers as a source of application
portability… backed by a certification program!

3. Container Usage Rising All Across The Board!
Cloud Foundry Container Report (June 2016) CNCF Container Management Trends (Jan 2017)
>30% are using 1000+ containers in production

4. OCI: Delivering on the Promise of Containers!
• The rapid growth in containers has led to widespread interest
in a vendor neutral open container specifications, which are:
• not bound to higher level constructs such as a particular client or
orchestration stack,
• not tightly associated with any particular commercial vendor, and
• portable across a wide variety of operating systems, hardware, CPU
architectures, public clouds

6. Technical Oversight Board (TOB) Leadership!
● Brandon Philips [CoreOS] (serves as chair)
● Michael Crosby [Docker]
● Dr. Diogo Monica [Docker]
● Jason Bouzane [Google]
● Vishnu Kannan [Google]
● Greg Kroah-Hartman [Linux Kernel]
● John Gossman [Microsoft]
● Chris Wright [Red Hat]
● Vincent Batts [Red Hat]
https://github.com/opencontainers/tob

7. OCI Community Milestones + Progress
OCI
announced!
JUN
2015
DEC
2015
Technical +
Governance
established!
Image
format
project
launches
Cert
Program v1.0
APR
2016
Tools
projects
launch
OCT
2016
● IN 2016: 3000+ commits via 128 authors across 36 organizations
● SHIPPED: v1.0-RC4 milestones last week! (v1.0 FINAL soon)
● NEW PROJECT: docker/go-digest -> opencontainers/go-digest
r: v0.1.0
SEP
2015
r: v1.0RC3
i: v1.0RC3
DEC
2016
r: v1.0RC4
i: v1.0RC4
FEB
2017
r: v1.0
i: v1.0
TBD
2017
TBD
2017
go/digest
project
launches
JAN
2017
r: v1.0RC2
i: v1.0RC2
SEP
2016
r: v1.1
i: v1.1
TBD
2017

8. https://github.com/docker/containerd
https://github.com/coreos/rkt https://github.com/cloudfoundry/garden-runc-release
https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-ohttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-5011 https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/26369
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/image-manifest-formats.html
Early Adopters

9. Get Involved with the OCI Community!
● Join the technical community and projects!
○ https://github.com/opencontainers/specs#weekly-call (open to all)
○ IRC: #opencontainers at irc.freenode.net / Twitter: @OCI_ORG
○ GitHub: https://github.com/opencontainers / Mailing List: dev@opencontainers.org
● Join OCI and help move container standards forward:
○ https://opencontainers.org/join
● Learn more at the OCI F2F at OSLS Feb 14th:
○ 2:00-3:30pm @ Castle Peak B