distribution-spec VS runtime-spec

Back in 2013, a little company called Docker made it really easy to start using containers to package up applications. A big key to their success was the OCI (you can learn about that here), an industry wide initiative to have standards around how we package up our applications. Because of OCI standards, we have hundreds (maybe thousands?) of tools that can be combined to manage and deploy applications. So why aren’t we using this for packaging up Notebooks and AI models as well? It would make deploying, sharing, and managing our models easier for everyone involved.

Kubernetes on the backend used to utilize docker for much of its container runtime solutions. One of the modular features of Kubernetes is the ability to utilize a Container Runtime Interface or CRI. The problem was that Docker didn't really meet the spec properly and they had to maintain a shim to translate properly. Instead users could utilize the popular containerd or cri-o runtimes. These follow the Open Container Initiative or OCI's guidelines on container formats.

OCI stands for Open Container Initiative, and its goal as an organization is to define a specification for container formats and runtime.

https://opencontainers.org/

Here is Containerfile from the repo: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile

apko allows us to build OCI container images from .apk packages.

Flagger's load testing service can be installed via a Kustomization resource based on manifests packaged as an artifact in an Open Container Initiative (OCI) registry

CRI-O is a lightweight container runtime for Kubernetes. It is an implementation of Kubernetes CRI to use Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible runtimes for running pods. It supports runc and Kata Containers as the container runtimes, but any OCI-compatible runtime can be integrated.

So somebody else created runj (runj is an experimental, proof-of-concept OCI-compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails.) https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj

> Well, no. When people say "containers", they always mean "Docker".

Not really/necessarily. https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec

Otras iniciativas empezaron a surgir debido a la alta popularidad de los containers y debido a esto, en 2015 se crea OCI(Open Container Initiative) para definir un estandar para containers(runtimes e imagenes).

Theoretically there could be a lot of new options that pop up. There is an Open Container Initiative that has a Runtime Specification that can be implemented. youki is one example of an OCI-compliant container runtime.

Open Container Initiative Runtime Specification aims to specify the configuration, execution environment, and lifecycle of a container. Source

How I can generate oci bundle that can be run with systemd-nspawn? I've tried podman/buildah push, but generated directory/archive is not an oci bundle (https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/bundle.md). I've tried podman image mount, but config.json file is nowhere to be found. It looks like I am missing something simple.

In more detail, runC and youki need to implement this specification. https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec

A runtime specification that describes how to unpack and run a container. OCI maintains a reference implementation called runc. Both containerd and CRI-O use runc in the background to spawn containers.

The immediate goal of this project(youki) is to pass all the default tests of the runtime-spec that the opencontainers is making. Of course, this is for my own learning, but I believe Rust is one of the best languages to implement a container runtime.