Introduction to Containerd - Best Practices and Hands-On Demo

Overview

Dive into a comprehensive video exploring containerd, an industry-standard container runtime, with Phil Estes, a project maintainer. Learn about containerd's history, creation, and best practices for usage and operation. Gain hands-on experience working with containerd on the command-line, understand its architecture, and discover which projects are utilizing it. Explore topics such as containerd's relationship with cri-o, debugging techniques, documentation improvements, and registry proxying capabilities. Get practical insights on managing images and containers using car, and troubleshoot common issues. Perfect for those seeking to deepen their understanding of container technology and its implementation in modern systems.

Syllabus

- Holding Screen
- Introductions
- How do we pronounce containerd?
- How did containerd come to exist?
- What projects are using containerd?
- Looking at the containerd architecture?
- Is containerd competing with cri-o?
- What are some best practices for running containerd with systems?
- Getting hands on with containerd via microk8s
- Using car to manage images and containers
- Shit, it’s not working. Lets install Docker
- How do I debug containerd issues?
- Are there plans to improve the containerd documentation?
- Can I proxy / pull through cache other registries with containerd?