containerd - Core Container Runtime Project For The container Industry
Channel: Docker
Date: 2016-12-29

Docker is spinning out its core container runtime functionality into a standalone component, incorporating it into a separate project called containerd, and will be donating it to a neutral foundation early next year. This is the latest chapter in a multi-year effort to break up the Docker platform into a more modular architecture of loosely coupled components.

https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/introducing-containerd/

https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/containerd-core-runtime-component/