Docker has been running on top of containerd since 1.11. This isn't really news....

charlieegan3 · on Dec 14, 2016

I think this is the actual news: https://www.docker.com/docker-news-and-press/docker-extracts...

> Docker today announced that it is spinning out containerd, a core component of Docker Engine, its industry-leading container platform, and donating it to a new community project.

Press release linked to from: https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/containerd-core-runtime-comp...

justincormack · on Dec 14, 2016

Also containerd is going to have more stuff added - image management from the OCI image spec for example. Not a lot of stuff, but all the key runtime parts, see the Scope section for what is in and out.

thockingoog · on Dec 14, 2016

yeah, this is key. It looks like JUST enough to be useful without the rest of the Docker engine.

chanezon · on Dec 14, 2016

containerd 0.2.4 which is used in Docker 1.12 covers only container execution. This announcement about containerd 1.0 roadmap extends the scope of containerd to make it a full container runtime designed to be embedded in higher level systems.

* scope table: https://github.com/docker/containerd#scope

* roadmap: https://github.com/docker/containerd/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

* new API: https://github.com/docker/containerd/tree/master/api