Trying Finch and introduce containerd

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  • colima

    Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

  • The author uses a Mac and uses Docker Desktop or colima x Docker CLI to realize a Docker development environment. Dcoker Desktop uses an internal HyperKit (macOS hypervisor) to launch a Linux VM and run dockerd in it. Docker Desktop is based on Lima, and it generates Lima configuration files, and it is used to run Linux.

  • nerdctl

    contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ... (by AkihiroSuda)

  • Direct use of containerd? containerd? turns out I didn't know anything about container technology. containerd was originally developed by Docker in 2015 as a daemon that provided basic container management capabilities under Docker. containerd's scope has gradually expanded and now seems to cover almost everything in the Docker Engine. For example, nerdctl is a CLI for containerd; the UX is almost identical to the Docker CLI, and Docker Compose is also supported (nerdctl compose).

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  • hyperkit

    A toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in your application

  • The author uses a Mac and uses Docker Desktop or colima x Docker CLI to realize a Docker development environment. Dcoker Desktop uses an internal HyperKit (macOS hypervisor) to launch a Linux VM and run dockerd in it. Docker Desktop is based on Lima, and it generates Lima configuration files, and it is used to run Linux.

  • buildkit

    concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit

  • In addition, the Finch article also mentions BuildKit, which should also be kept in mind. As before, I will focus on understanding the relationship with Docker. I remember myself, and I have seen things like DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build . I had a chance to see something likeDOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build . This is a way to use BuildKit with Docker, which seems to have the following advantages over the Docker default build

  • containerd

    An open and reliable container runtime

  • Looking at the details, it seems that Kubernetes used to touch Docker for managing containers on distributed environments, but in recent years, they started to use containerd directly.

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