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 ocid - OCI-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
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+### Status: pre-alpha
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+This is an implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI) that will allow Kubernetes to directly launch and manage Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers.
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 The plan is to use OCI projects and best of breed libraries for different aspects:
 - Runtime: runc (or any OCI runtime-spec compliant runtime)
 - Images: Image management using https://github.com/containers/image
 - Storage: Storage and management of image layers using https://github.com/containers/storage
 - Networking: Networking support through use of [CNI](https://github.com/containernetworking/cni)
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+It is currently in active development in the Kubernetes community through the [design proposal](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26788).  Questions and issues should be raised in the Kubernetes [sig-node Slack channel](https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/sig-node).