crun VS runtime-tools

Compare crun vs runtime-tools and see what are their differences.

crun

A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers (by containers)
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crun runtime-tools
30 4
2,787 415
3.5% 1.2%
9.3 3.3
3 days ago 8 months ago
C Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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crun

Posts with mentions or reviews of crun. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-06.
  • Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Mar 2024
    Yep pretty much.

    The executables bundle crun (a container runtime)[0], and a fuse implementation of squashfs and overlayfs. Appended to that is a squashfs of the image.

    At runtime the squashfs and overlayfs are mounted and the container is started.

    [0]: https://github.com/containers/crun

  • Howto: WASM runtimes in Docker / Colima
    5 projects | dev.to | 12 Jan 2024
    cpu: 4 disk: 60 memory: 12 arch: host hostname: colima autoActivate: true forwardAgent: false # I only tested this with 'docker', not 'containerd': runtime: docker kubernetes: enabled: false version: v1.24.3+k3s1 k3sArgs: [] network: address: true dns: [] dnsHosts: host.docker.internal: host.lima.internal # Added: # - containerd-snapshotter: true (meaning containerd will be used for pulling images) # - default-runtime / runtimes: crun (instead of the default 'runc') docker: default-runtime: crun features: buildkit: true containerd-snapshotter: true runtimes: crun: path: /usr/local/bin/crun vmType: vz rosetta: true mountType: virtiofs mountInotify: false cpuType: host # This provisioning script installs WasmEdge and builds crun with wasmedge support: provision: - mode: system script: | [ -f /etc/docker/daemon.json ] && echo "Already provisioned!" && exit 0 echo "Install system updates:" apt-get update -y apt-get upgrade -y echo "Install WasmEdge and crun dependencies:" # NOTE: packages curl git python3 already installed: apt-get install -y make gcc build-essential pkgconf libtool libsystemd-dev libprotobuf-c-dev libcap-dev libseccomp-dev libyajl-dev libgcrypt20-dev go-md2man autoconf automake criu apt-get clean -y - mode: user script: | [ -f /etc/docker/daemon.json ] && echo "Already provisioned!" && exit 0 echo "Installing WasmEdge:" curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge/master/utils/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -p /usr/local echo echo "`wasmedge -v` installed!" # NOTE: I failed to Configure Wasmtime properly - turned off for now: #echo "Installing Wasmtime:" #curl -sSf https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh | bash #sudo cp .wasmtime/bin/* /usr/local/bin/ #rm -rf .wasmtime #echo "`wasmtime -V` installed!" echo "Install crun:" git clone https://github.com/containers/crun cd crun ./autogen.sh #./configure --with-wasmedge --with-wasmtime ./configure --with-wasmedge make sudo make install crun -v echo "crun installed! Replacing runc with crun:" # NOTE: replacing runc with runc is to simplify containerd config TRC=`which runc` sudo rm -rf $TRC sudo cp `which crun` $TRC echo "Configuring containerd:" sudo mkdir -p /etc/containerd/ containerd config default | sudo tee /etc/containerd/config.toml >/dev/null echo "Restarting/reloading docker/containerd services:" sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl restart containerd # As soon as Colima writes its /etc/docker/daemon.json file (right after this provisioning script), # it will also start the Docker daemon. If we stop Docker here, the changes will actually take effect: sudo systemctl stop docker sshConfig: true mounts: [] env: {}
  • Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    On this note, I was really surprised to find Red Hat's OCI runtime is written in C: https://github.com/containers/crun

    Is anyone working on a Rust version?

  • US Cybersecurity: The Urgent Need for Memory Safety in Software Products
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2023
    It's interesting that, in light of things like this, you still see large software companies adding support for new components written in non-memory safe languages (e.g. C)

    As an example Red Hat OpenShift added support for crun(https://github.com/containers/crun) this year(https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/whats-new-in-red-hat-openshift...), which is written in C as an alternative to runc, which is written in Go(https://github.com/opencontainers/runc)...

  • Barco: Linux Containers from Scratch in C
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2023
  • Crun: Fast and lightweight OCI runtime and C library for running containers
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 4 Jun 2023
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2023
    Kubernetes needs an OCI runtime to run containers with. Crun is one implementation it can use.

    Docker also appears to be able to use crun for it's engine as well. https://github.com/containers/crun/issues/37

  • Best virtualization solution with Ubuntu 22.04
    8 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 28 May 2023
    crun
  • Why did the Krustlet project die?
    6 projects | /r/kubernetes | 14 Jan 2023
  • Is this an incompatibility with docker or an I doing something else wrong?
    1 project | /r/podman | 22 Nov 2022
    Looks like https://github.com/containers/crun/issues/255 - start there.

runtime-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of runtime-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-30.
  • Podman/buildah oci bundle
    4 projects | /r/podman | 30 Dec 2021
    But there is another issue - machinectl doesn't know how to start oci-bundle. It would be nice to have a tool which would generate .nspawn file from config.json (apparrently, there is an open issue for that https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-tools/issues/669)
  • Youki, a container runtime in Rust, passed all the default tests provided by opencontainers.
    3 projects | /r/programming | 22 May 2021
    I think you might be looking at the gitignore for https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-tools/blob/master/.gitignore , which is NOT the repo made by /u/utam0k. That's a large repo from opencontainers that includes many different things, so that .gitignore is bigger but by no means unreasonable.
    2 projects | /r/rust | 19 May 2021
    youki, a container runtime in Rust I'm implementing, passed all the default tests provided by opencontainers. There are still many issues that need to be implemented, but it's getting fun. I think Rust to be a good choice for implementing container utilities. If you are interested, please refer to the motivation section of README for more details. I'd like to hear your opinions.
  • Crun: Fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2021
    crun runs the OCI validations tests on each PR.

    The tests are maintained here: https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-tools/tree/master/...

    I guess this is the closest to be "certified compliant", but that is not enough for working with existing container engines as everyone just assumes runc is used

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crun and runtime-tools you can also consider the following projects:

runc - CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

singularity - Singularity has been renamed to Apptainer as part of us moving the project to the Linux Foundation. This repo has been persisted as a snapshot right before the changes.

youki - A container runtime written in Rust

umoci - umoci modifies Open Container images

cri-o - Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface

image-tools - OCI Image Tooling

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust

wasm-micro-runtime - WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR)

runtime-spec - OCI Runtime Specification

awesome-alternatives-in-rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust