Containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive - M. Pavlenko, A. Suda, L. Brehm, S. Karp, J. Zhou
M. Pavlenko, A. Suda, L. Brehm, S. Karp, J. Zhou
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
This talk provides a comprehensive update on **Containerd**, the industry-standard container runtime, delivered by a panel of its core maintainers. The discussion spans recent advancements in Containerd 2.0, a preview of features slated for the upcoming 2.1 release, significant project governance changes, and a deep dive into ecosystem innovations, particularly the **RunWasi** project for WebAssembly workloads. The speakers, including Maxim Pavlenko, Aishiro Suda, Laura Brehm, and Shirley Karp, share their insights into the project's evolution and future direction.
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This talk delivered a substantive update on Containerd by its core maintainers, detailing critical advancements in versions 2.0 and 2.1. The session highlighted the stabilization of key APIs, significant technical debt reduction, and crucial security enhancements like Image Verifier Plugins and the experimental Go-jail. Most notably, the deep dive into RunWasi demonstrated a genuinely novel and impactful approach to integrating WebAssembly workloads into Kubernetes, promising superior performance and extensibility. The discussion on improved project governance signals a commitment to…