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OCI and CRI runtimes - Docker Tutorial
From the course: Docker Essential Training
OCI and CRI runtimes
- [Instructor] We learned how container runtimes make the process of creating containers dramatically simpler from automatically creating isolated namespaces, to defining the Linux capabilities apps in those namespaces are, well, capable of using. As you might imagine, lots of opinions about how to execute these steps have arisen. Some runtime maintainers think that containers should not start as root by default. Others think that containers can be created in fewer steps. Many different container runtimes have arisen as a result. Let's take a look at a few of them. There are two quote unquote standards of container runtimes in use today. OCI compatible runtimes and CRI or C-R-I runtimes. OCI is short for the Open Container Initiative. The Open Container Initiative or the OCI is a working group that aims to provide standards for all things containers, like container images and importantly container runtimes. The OCI standard…
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