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containerd / nerdctl

nerdctl

contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

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26Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
10.5KGitHub stars
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contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

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Observed mentions: 2021-03-23 07:59:48 UTC to 2025-09-17 01:24:52 UTC.

02462021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

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https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/platforms/ : > gVisor requires a platform to implement interception of syscalls, basic context switching, and memory mapping functionality. Internally, gVisor uses an abstraction sensibly called Platform. Chrome sandbox: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/... Firefox sandbox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox Chromium sandbox types summary: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/docs/linux/sa... Minijail: https://github.com/google/minijail : > Minijail is a sandboxing and containment tool used in ChromeOS and Android. It provides an executable that can be used to launch and sandbox other programs, and a library that can be used by code to sandbox itself. Chrome vulnerability reward amounts: https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/5745167867576320/c... Sy
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stemd has SystemCallFilter= to limit processes to certain syscall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693366 Nerdctl: https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl Nerdctl, podman, and podman-remote do rootless containers.
In The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime
Using Docker Compose with Podman: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose Using containerd: https://github.com/mc256/containerd-compose Using nerdctl: https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl I'd really disagree that compose files are somehow one-shot, or blindly modified. To the contrary, really, we have them checked in with the source code. Upon deployment to the cluster, the (running) services will be intelligently updated or replaced (in a rolling manner, causing zero downtime). LXC might be more elegant, but I have no idea what simple, file-based format I could use to let engineers describe the environment their app should run in without compose. I need something that even junior devs can start up with a single command, that can be placed in the VCS along with the code, and that will not require deep Linux knowledge to get
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running. Open for suggestions here, really.
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