containerd was born from community desire for a core, standalone runtime to act as a piece of plumbing that applications like Kubernetes could use. It sits between command line tools like Docker, which it was spun out from, and lower-level runtimes like runC or gVisor, which execute the container’s code. This week’s guest is Derek McGowan, a Software Engineer at Docker and a containerd maintainer-d.
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Chatter of the week

Vancouver, Vancouver, and George Vancouver
South Bend, North Bend, and Bend
Cosmpolis
“50 Year Sensation: the Dave McMacken Retrospective” (album art show in Astoria, Oregon)

News of the week

Istio 1.3 is out
Google’s Anthos now incudes Anthos Service Mesh, Cloud Run for Anthos and more
Cloud Native Application Bundles hit 1.0

Episode 61 with Ralph Squillace and Jeremy Rickard


Nominations for the annual CNCF Community Awards
Bloomberg hits 90% utilization with Kubernetes
Mistakes that “cost” thousands by Gajus Kuizinas
Kubernetes Edge working group publishes whitepaper
Isopod, by Cruise
Pulumi 1.0
5 RBAC mistakes you must avoid (number 4 will shock you)
OpenShift 4.2 disconnected install
Red Hat Quay 3.1
Microsoft AKS brings Scale Sets and Standard LB to GA

Upstream kernel bugs


Amazom EKS adds cluster tagging and IAM roles for service accounts
Deep dive into AWS Fargate by Abhisheck Ray from Amazon
Kong introduces Kuma, “universal service mesh”
Google introduces Cloud Dataproc for Kubernetes
Apache Flink operator from Google Cloud
Container runtime security bypasses on Falco by Mark “Antitree” Manning
Rafay Systems lands $8m in Series A funding

Links from the interview

containerd
Original announcement
The many meanings of ‘container runtime’
kubelet and Container Runtime Interfaces
runC, gVisor, Kata Containers, and the Windows Host Compute Service (HCS)
ctr debug tool
containerd’s graduation from the CNCF
containerd shim API

gVisor shim
Firecracker containerd integration
Kata Containers shim
Windows Container shim


rkt announced in 2014 with appC spec
Open Container Initiative

libcontainer, which became runC


Web Assembly (WASM)
BuildKit
1.3.0 releases are coming
Contribution opportunities:

Reporting issues
Plugin ecosystem


Derek McGowan and containerd on Twitter