How CRI-O works with Kubernetes

When you want to start or stop a container with Kubernetes, Kubernetes talks to CRI-O, and CRI-O talks to an OCI-compliant container runtime such as runc for Docker to start a container. CRI-O can also pull OCI-compliant container images and manage them on a disk. Good news for Container Developers—they do not need to work with CRI-O directly, as Kubernetes handles that automatically. But it is important to understand the concept and overall architecture:

CRI-O architecture

To sum this up, there are a few things to note before we go to the hands-on part and install CRI-O in our lab:

  • Kubernetes is configured ...

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