Why was nerdctl made? - Container Plumbing Days 2023
Presenters: Akihiro Suda (NTT)
Session Type: Presentation (25min)
Topics: Container Runtimes, Container/Image Security/SBOM, Image Building, Image formats & standards, Image transports, Containers and filesystem storage, nerdctl, containerd, stargz snapshotter, ocicrypt, cosign, bypass4netns, buildg, and more
Session Details:
nerdctl (contaiNERD CTL) was made to facilitate development of new technologies in the containerd platform.
Such technologies include:
Lazy-pulling with Stargz/Nydus/OverlayBD
P2P image distribution with IPFS
Image encryption with OCIcrypt
Image signing with Cosign
“Real” read-only mounts with mount_setattr
Slirp-less rootless containers with bypass4netns
Interactive debugging of Dockerfiles, with buildg
nerdctl is also useful for debugging Kubernetes nodes that are running containerd.
Through this session, the audiences will learn these functionalities of nerdctl, relevant projects, and the roadmap for the future.
More info: https://containerplumbing.org/schedule