Five things you need to know about your container runtime

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Focuses on the runtime actually in use: containerd as the common CRI implementation that delegates to runC, relies on the OCI specs for image and runtime portability, and supports pluggable snapshots and shims. Notes working lazy‑loading projects like Sochi and GKE image streaming, a wasm path via runw, and built‑in Prometheus metrics plus OpenTelemetry tracing of image pulls. Config details include host.toml registry files and a containerd 2.0 config migration helper. Community has 24 maintainers from 13 employers collaborating since 2016.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:22What is a container runtime
3. 7:11Runtime interchangeability
4. 11:04Extensibility of runtimes
5. 16:29Runtime observability
6. 20:29Configuring runtimes
7. 23:19Runtime ecosystem collaboration
8. 26:30Takeaways
9. 27:35Q&A

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