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Container runtimes

Container runtimes - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Container runtimes

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- In this video, I'll tell you about container runtimes. So what is the container runtime? Well, in order to understand the container runtime, let's start with the container engine. In the early days of containers, not so long ago, in the years 2014, 2015, which is considered the start of the container revolution, containers were started and managed by the container engine. And a container engine offers multiple components. There's a core component that runs the containers, and optionally, there's a daemon that controls the containers as well. Whether or not a daemon is present really depends on the container engine that is used. There's also a command line interface that allows users and administrators to interface with the containers. Now, common container engines are Docker, and LXC, and Podman, and Systemd-nspawn, where Docker was really the start of the container revolution. They have been the biggest for a long time, and probably they still are the biggest. LXC is Linux native…

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