rkt and the Open Container Initiative: Promoting Industry Standards

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rkt is already pulling Docker images and converting them into ACI format and has OCI support since last summer but that support is a translation layer, not full compliance. Work in progress includes adding a runC stage1 so the runtime behavior matches the OCI runtime spec, and extending acbuild to produce either ACI or OCI images. Storage and fetching semantics differ (ACI uses a single-layer chain, Docker/OCI use layered graphs), so rkt must store and query two image models simultaneously.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:421972: IBM Introduces VM/370
3. 5:34Docker Introduces Container Images
4. 9:26How do we solve this?
5. 11:30OCI: Setup and Structure
6. 12:36The Runtime Spec
7. 15:45The Image Spec - Fetching
8. 17:00The Image Spec - Storing
9. 18:07The Image Spec - Building

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