April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
5h 42m
English
One of the most important components of the container ecosystem is the container runtime. During the early days of Docker, the runtime was LXC, then it changed to be the Docker-owned libcontainer. The libcontainer was later donated to OCI, the Open Container Initiative project under the Linux Foundation. Later, Project RunC was started. RunC is a command-line wrapper around libcontainer to enable developers to start containers from a Terminal. A developer could start a container by invoking the RunC binary and passing a root filesystem and a container specification to it.
RunC is an extremely stable piece of software. It has been with Docker since version 1.12 and is already used by millions of users. The ...
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