containerd/design/containerd.md

containerd

containerd is built to be a high performance container runtime able to support containers, processes, images, and networking primitives for supporting high level platforms.

Some of the design considerations for containerd are as follows:

• High performance
• Light on resources
• Expose internal metrics
• Comprised of multiple loosely coupled components
• Able to be upgraded without impact to running containers
• Restore from crashes

Design

Below is the high level design of the daemon and its components: