On: Containerd – An open and reliable container runtim...

[charlieegan3]

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 → charlieegan3]

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 → justincormack]

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