Open Container Project Gets New Name, Sees Member Growth | Linux Today

Open Container Project Gets New Name, Sees Member Growth

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jul 22, 2015

At the core of OCI is technology called libcontainer, which had been part of Docker. Inside libcontainer is a component called nsinit, which has now been renamed runc. As part of the OCI effort, two concurrent efforts are being worked on and are publicly visible on Github: the specs effort to define the Open Container specification and runc, which is the implementation of the specs.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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