Top 5 cri Open-Source Projects

containerd

125 16,292 9.9 Go

An open and reliable container runtime

Project mention: Exploring 5 Docker Alternatives: Containerization Choices for 2024 | dev.to | 2024-03-18

Containerd and nerdctl

kata-containers

11 4,877 10.0 Rust

Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

Project mention: Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-03

InfluxDB

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kuasar

4 1,170 8.3 Rust

A multi-sandbox container runtime that provides cloud-native, all-scenario multiple sandbox container solutions.

Project mention: The advantage of WASM compared with container runtimes | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-28

Right now most early examples alas boot a container with a wasm runtime for each wasm instance, which is a sad waste. The whole advantage of wasm should be very lightweight low overhead wasm runtime instances atop a common wasm process. Having a process or container for each instance loses a ton of the benefit, makes it not much better than a regular container.
Thankfully there is work like the Containerd Sandbox API which enables new architectures like this. https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/4131
It's still being used to spawn a wasm processes per instance for now, but container runtime project Kuasar is already using the Sandbox API to save significant resources, and has already chimed in in comments on HN to express a desire to have shared-process/multi-wasm-instamxe runtimes, which could indeed allow sub ms spawning that could enable instance per request architectures. https://github.com/kuasar-io/kuasar

cri-dockerd

11 951 8.4 Go

dockerd as a compliant Container Runtime Interface for Kubernetes

Project mention: How to create a 3-node kubernetes cluster and deploy an application on my ubuntu 22.04 minibox | dev.to | 2024-01-10

$ wget https://github.com/Mirantis/cri-dockerd/releases/download/v0.3.9/cri-dockerd-0.3.9.amd64.tgz $ tar zxvf cri-dockerd-0.3.9.amd64.tgz $ cd cri-dockerd $ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin $ sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 cri-dockerd/usr/local/bin/cri-dockerd $ mkdir foo; cd foo $ git clone [email protected]:Mirantis/cri-dockerd.git $ cd cri-dockerd $ sudo install packaging/systemd/* /etc/systemd/system $ sudo sed -i -e 's,/usr/bin/cri-dockerd,/usr/local/bin/cri-dockerd,' /etc/systemd/system/cri-docker.service $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload $ sudo systemctl enable --now cri-docker.socket

containrs

1 124 0.0 Rust

General purpose container library
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).