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 # containerd
 
-containerd is a daemon to control runC, built for performance and density. 
-containerd leverages runC's advanced features such as seccomp and user namespace support as well
-as checkpoint and restore for cloning and live migration of containers.
-
-## Getting started
-
-The easiest way to start using containerd is to download binaries from the [releases page](https://github.com/docker/containerd/releases).
-
-The included `ctr` command-line tool allows you interact with the containerd daemon:
-
-```
-$ sudo ctr containers start redis /containers/redis
-$ sudo ctr containers list
-ID                  PATH                STATUS              PROCESSES
-redis               /containers/redis   running             14063
-```
-
-`/containers/redis` is the path to an OCI bundle. [See the docs for more information.](docs/bundle.md)
-
-## Docs
-
- * [Client CLI reference (`ctr`)](docs/cli.md)
- * [Daemon CLI reference (`containerd`)](docs/daemon.md)
- * [Creating OCI bundles](docs/bundle.md)
- * [containerd changes to the bundle](docs/bundle-changes.md)
- * [Attaching to STDIO or TTY](docs/attach.md)
- * [Telemetry and metrics](docs/telemetry.md)
-
-All documentation is contained in the `/docs` directory in this repository.
-
-## Building
-
-You will need to make sure that you have Go installed on your system and the containerd repository is cloned
-in your `$GOPATH`.  You will also need to make sure that you have all the dependencies cloned as well.
-Currently, contributing to containerd is not for the first time devs as many dependencies are not vendored and 
-work is being completed at a high rate.  
-
-After that just run `make` and the binaries for the daemon and client will be localed in the `bin/` directory.
-
-## Performance
-
-Starting 1000 containers concurrently runs at 126-140 containers per second.
-
-Overall start times:
-
-```
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 15:00:54   count:        1000
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   min:          23ms
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   max:         355ms
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   mean:         78ms
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   stddev:       34ms
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   median:       73ms
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   75%:          91ms
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   95%:         123ms
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   99%:         287ms
-[containerd] 2015/12/04 14:59:54   99.9%:       355ms
-```
-
-## Roadmap
-
-The current roadmap and milestones for alpha and beta completion are in the github issues on this repository.  Please refer to these issues for what is being worked on and completed for the various stages of development.
+`containerd` is the daemon built on containerkit for manageing containers at the system level.
 
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