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Understanding OCI Runtimes: containerd, Shims, and the Container Lifecycle

DEV Community·Beingana Jim Junior·25 days ago
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"it works on my machine" is a phrase that was once common in the Software Engineering World. It often was used in situtations where teams of multiple people were working on a project and often faced incompatability issues as the software project was used across different machine environments. As DevOps became more standardised, it brought a necessity of having a standard way to package software applications that allowed them to be used accross different machine configurations. This led to the birth of "containers". However, for a while there where multiple continer technologies such as Docker, rkt, Warden, LXC. To solve this, a bunch of industry leaders decided to come together and decided to draft a standardized specification for containers which resulted into The Open Container Initiative . There are currently three OCI specifications in development and use: the Runtime Specification (runtime-spec), the Image Specification (image-spec), and the Distribution Specification (distribution-spec).…

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