Docker open sources critical infrastructure component

Docker open sources critical infrastructure component. Docker announced today that it was open sourcing containerd (pronounced Container D), making a key infrastructure piece of its container platform available for anyone to work on. Leading cloud providers have signed on to work on it including Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft. Solomon Hykes, Docker’s founder and CTO, says a foundational principle of the company has always been about putting the end user first and the plumbing second, and this moves a critical piece of the plumbing into the open source community. “As of [today] we have a completely new repo for containerd, separate from Docker, with details around contribution needs and an explicit road map,” Hykes told TechCrunch. By donating the containerd code to a foundation to manage in a neutral open place, it will allow major cloud vendors to collaborate on it, he explained. Docker architecture. Courtesy of Docker. In fact, the company has been moving various pieces of the underlying plumbing into open source for the last couple of years with the goal of standardizing these pieces across systems. “We’re making it a point to make it clear that we do support open standards,” Hykes said.

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Docker announced today that it was open sourcing containerd (pronounced Container D), making a key infrastructure piece of its container platform available for anyone to work on.

Containerd, which acts as the core container runtime engine, is a component within Docker that provides “users with an open, stable and extensible base for building non-Docker products and container solutions,” according to the company. Leading cloud providers have signed on to work on it including Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft.

For now, Docker has not announced the foundation that will house the open source project, but they intend to put it in a neutral foundation some time during the first quarter of 2017.

Solomon Hykes, Docker’s founder and CTO, says a foundational principle of the company has always been about putting the end user first and the plumbing second, and this moves a critical piece of the plumbing into the open source community. “We’re spinning out containerd to make it accessible across the board, and we are doing it in concert and with input from the ecosystem,” he explained.

“As of [today] we have…

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