nerdctl

One area, where containerd didn't had a first class support was CLI. the default containerd CLI "ctr" has a very naive implementation. The reason for that I believe is, containerd as a system was never meant to be consumed by humans, and was designed to be consumed by higher layers e.g. orchestration systems like nomad or k8s. However, with the deprecation of dockershim in k8s, and users moving to containerd, a new docker compatible CLI came out: https://github.com/AkihiroSuda/nerdctl If you just have containerd running on your system (with no docker daemon running), you can just install nerdctl and add alias docker="nerdctl" to your ~/.bashrc file. Then you can just run any docker commands the way you used to with docker, and it will run those commands against the containerd API giving you the same CLI experience that you used to have wi

Check out https://github.com/AkihiroSuda/nerdctl