Gopher Meets Crab: A Rust Journey in Cloud Native

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Built a Rust client that drives containerd lifecycle operations (pull, create, start, stop) using the containerd rust extensions crates and an OCI spec crate, but finds only four of 67 graduated/incubating CNCF projects with meaningful Rust today and 121 total Rust repos (~13.5% of CNCF). Lacks Go-style SDK helpers so writing extra gRPC glue, fixes, and examples; uses the transfer service to let the daemon handle registry pulls and confirms the approach works.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:04Rust in CNCF projects
3. 7:00Rust cloud-native gaps
4. 10:41Rust crates overview
5. 11:47Rust containerd client
6. 13:32Learning Rust with AI
7. 15:38Go vs Rust SDKs
8. 17:50Rust early adopter phase
9. 19:15Contributing to Rust OSS
10. 20:21Containerd registry in Rust
11. 23:13Encouraging Rust adoption
12. 23:57Q&A

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