Intro - Containerd

Explore the design, project goals, and history of containerd in this 43-minute conference talk presented by containerd maintainers Derek McGowan from Docker and Mike Brown from IBM. Discover tools for interacting with containerd, including ctr and crictl. Learn how to monitor pods and containers using Prometheus and gain insights into containerd's plugin model, which enables support for new custom extensions. Understand Kubernetes' Container Runtime Interface (CRI) and learn to configure containerd's CRI plugin for use as a container runtime in Kubernetes. Gain the knowledge needed to get started with containerd as a developer, contributor, or system administrator for various use cases.