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.
Open Container Project Gets New Name, Sees Member Growth
By
Sean Michael Kerner
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