# Name of project: Container Networking Interface

# Description
The CNI (Container Network Interface) project consists of a specification and libraries for writing plugins to configure network interfaces
in Linux containers, along with a number of supported plugins. CNI concerns itself only with network connectivity of containers and removing 
allocated resources when the container is deleted. Because of this focus, CNI has a wide range of support and the specification is simple to 
implement. CNI consists of 3 separate comonents:

  *  CNI Specification: defines an straightforward API between runtimes and network plugins for container network setup/teardown.  No more, no less.
  *  Plugins: provide network setup for a variety of use-cases and serve as reference examples of plugins conforming to the CNI specification
  *  Library: provide a Go implementation of the CNI specification that runtimes can use to more easily consume CNI
     NOTE: CNI Specification is independently versioned from the CNI library and plugins in the repository (e.g. the versions of releases). The plugins are being pulled out into a separate repository

**Sponsor/Advisor from TOC:** Ken Owens

**preferred maturity level:** Incubating

**License:** Apache License v2.0

**Source control repositories:** https://github.com/containernetworking/cni

**external dependencies:** None

**Initial Committers:** https://github.com/containernetworking/cni/graphs/contributors

**infrastructure requests (CI / CNCF Cluster):** None

**communication channels (slack, irc, mailing lists):** 
  * Email: cni-dev
  * IRC: #containernetworking channel on freenode.org
  * Slack: containernetworking.slack.com

**issue tracker (GitHub by default):** Github - https://github.com/containernetworking/cni/issues

**website (current version will move to project.cncf.io):** https://github.com/containernetworking

**release methodology and mechanics:**
*TBD*

**social media accounts**

**community size and any existing sponsorship**
  *  56 Contributors
  *  591 Stars
  *  17 releases
  
## Container runtimes

rkt - container engine
Kurma - container runtime
Kubernetes - a system to simplify container operations
Cloud Foundry - a platform for cloud applications
Mesos - a distributed systems kernel

## 3rd party plugins

Project Calico - a layer 3 virtual network
Weave - a multi-host Docker network
Contiv Networking - policy networking for various use cases
SR-IOV
Cilium - BPF & XDP for containers
Infoblox - enterprise IP address management for containers
Multus - a Multi plugin
Romana - Layer 3 CNI plugin supporting network policy for Kubernetes
CNI-Genie - generic CNI network plugin