containerd

An open and reliable container runtime

containerd was accepted to CNCF on March 29, 2017 at the Incubating maturity level and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on February 28, 2019.

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Health Score

Excellent (84)

Total contributors

38,200

+14% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

9,783

+11% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

40,680

+14% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

6,403

+13% vs. previous year

Software Value

$104.5M

First commit

July 17, 2015

containerd case studies

Cloudchipr client

Cloudchipr client


45% AWS cloud savings

February 16, 2026

How a Cloudchipr’s client reduced Cloud costs by 45%

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Meltwater

Meltwater


Massive Scale 2+ petabytes of data, 200+ billion documents

August 17, 2023

Meltwater's Live Migration to Cilium for Richer Features

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Recorded containerd programs

CNCF On demand webinar: Enabling WebAssembly workloads in Kubernetes

CNCF On demand webinar: Enabling WebAssembly workloads in Kubernetes

Presented by: Fermyon
February 29, 2024 1,047 views
CNCF On demand webinar: Run WASM: Shim This Way

CNCF On demand webinar: Run WASM: Shim This Way

Presented by: Fermyon
May 11, 2023 1,051 views