cri-containerd is a containerd based implementation of Kubernetes container runtime interface (CRI).

With it, you could run Kubernetes using containerd as the container runtime.

cri-containerd is in beta:

• It is feature complete.
• It (the beta version) works with Kubernetes >= 1.9.
• It has passed all CRI validation tests.
• It has passed all regular node e2e tests.
• It has passed all regular e2e tests.

See test dashboard

For a production quality cluster on GCE brought up with kube-up.sh refer here.

For a multi node cluster installer and bring up steps using ansible and kubeadm refer here.

For non ansible users, you can download the cri-containerd release tarball and deploy kubernetes cluster using kubeadm as described here.

The current release of cri-containerd has the following dependencies:

• containerd
• runc
• CNI

See versions of these dependencies cri-containerd is tested with.

As containerd and runc move to their respective general availability releases, we will do our best to rebase/retest cri-containerd with these releases on a weekly/monthly basis. Similarly, given that cri-containerd uses the Open Container Initiative (OCI) image and runtime specifications, we will also do our best to update cri-containerd to the latest releases of these specifications as appropriate.

1. Install development libraries:

• libseccomp development library. Required by cri-containerd and runc seccomp support. libseccomp-dev (Ubuntu, Debian) / libseccomp-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL). On releases of Ubuntu <=Trusty and Debian <=jessie a backport version of libseccomp-dev is required. See travis.yml for an example on trusty.
• libapparmor development library. Required by cri-containerd and runc apparmor support. To use apparmor on Debian, Ubuntu, and related distributions the installation of libapparmor-dev is required.
• btrfs development library. Required by containerd btrfs support. btrfs-tools(Ubuntu, Debian) / btrfs-progs-devel(Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)

2. Install other dependencies:

• nsenter: Required by CNI and portforward.
• socat: Required by portforward.

3. Install and setup a go 1.9.x development environment.
4. Make a local clone of this repository.
5. Install binary dependencies by running the following command from your cloned cri-containerd/ project directory:

# Note: install.deps installs the above mentioned runc, containerd, and CNI
# binary dependencies. install.deps is only provided for general use and ease of
# testing. To customize `runc` and `containerd` build tags and/or to configure
# `cni`, please follow instructions in their documents.
make install.deps

To build and install cri-containerd enter the following commands from your cri-containerd project directory:

make
sudo make install

cri-containerd supports optional build tags for compiling support of various features. To add build tags to the make option the BUILDTAGS variable must be set.

make BUILD_TAGS='seccomp apparmor'

Another Kubernetes incubator project called cri-tools includes programs for exercising CRI implementations such as cri-containerd. More importantly, cri-tools includes the program critest which is used for running CRI Validation Testing.

Run the CRI Validation test to validate your installation of cri-containerd:

make test-cri

If you already have a working development environment for supported Kubernetes version, you can try cri-containerd in a local cluster:

1. Start containerd as root in a first terminal:

sudo containerd

2. Start cri-containerd as root in a second terminal:

sudo cri-containerd -v 2 --alsologtostderr

3. From the Kubernetes project directory startup a local cluster using cri-containerd:

CONTAINER_RUNTIME=remote CONTAINER_RUNTIME_ENDPOINT='/var/run/cri-containerd.sock' ./hack/local-up-cluster.sh

See here for information about test.

See here for information about using crictl to debug pods, containers, and images.

See here for additional documentation.

Interested in contributing? Check out the documentation.

This is a Kubernetes Incubator project. The project was established 2017/4/13. The incubator team for the project is:

• Sponsor: Dawn Chen (@dchen1107)
• Champion: Yuju Hong (@yujuhong)
• SIG: sig-node

For more information about sig-node and the cri-containerd project:

• sig-node community site
• Slack: #sig-node channel in Kubernetes (kubernetes.slack.com)
• Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-sig-node

Participation in the Kubernetes community is governed by the Kubernetes Code of Conduct.