History of containerd, with Phil Estes

This week we explore the history of containers, particularly containerd, with Phil Estes.

 

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News of the week

• Notary Project announces a major release! (Blog) 

• Kubernetes Legacy Package Repositories Will Be Frozen On September 13, 2023 (Blog)

• Gateway API v0.8.0: Introducing Service Mesh Support (Blog)

• Amazon VPC CNI now supports Kubernetes Network Policies (Blog)

• Introducing VMware Tanzu Developer Portal: Empowering Developers with Enterprise-Grade Backstage

• Google Cloud Next page

• Google Cloud Next Blogs

• Google Cloud Post-Next Videos

• KubeCon NA 2023 Schedule

• Rig.dev startup (Blog)

 

Links from the interview

• Docker

• Containerd

• Chroot (archlinux wiki)

• Linux namespaces (Linux man page)

• runC announcement (2015)

• runC on Github

• Containerd project creation announcement (2016)

• Containerd donation to CNCF announcement (2017)

• Containerd graduation announcement (2019)

• Container Runtime Interface (CRI)

• Kubernetes SIG Node

• Dockershim debacle (kubernetes.io blog)

• Dockershim deprecation FAQ (kubernetes.io blog)

• Mirantis-owned cri-dockershim on Github

• Open Container Initiative (OCI)

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

• CoreOS ("What was CoreOS" blog by RedHat)

• Rkt ("What is Rkt" blog by RedHat)

• Kinvolk

• BlaBlaCar

• BlaBlaCar Case Study on Google Cloud

• gRPC

• gVisor

• Kata Containers

• Docker && WASM with Justin Cormack (Docker CTO) on the Kubernetes Podcast from Google

• WasmEdge (A Wasm runtime)

• CRI-O (lightweight container runtime for Kubernetes)

• Containerd scope and principles

• nerdctl: Docker-compatible CLI for containerd

• Docker Buildkit

• github.com/container-image, github.com/container-storage

• Podman

• Skopeo

• Firecracker microvms

• Intel Clear Containers

• Hyper.sh

• Open Infrastructure Foundation

• OpenStack

• Cloud Native Rejekts

• "Face off: VMs vs. Containers vs Firecracker" by Alex Ellis at Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2023

 

Links from the post-interview chat

 

• Keynote: Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes - Ricardo Rocha & Lukas Heinrich

• Keynote: CERN Experiences - Ricardo Rocha & Clenimar Filemon

• Jesse Frazelle's container escape challenge used to be at contained.af, but it doesn't seem to exist anymore.

• Containers from Scratch - Liz Rice at GOTO 2018 (there are a bunch of recordings of this talk)

• Mirantis-owned cri-dockershim on Github