Why was nerdctl made?

Presenters: Akihiro Suda (NTT)

Session Type: Presentation (25min)

Topics: Container Runtimes, Container/Image Security/SBOM, Image Building, Image formats & standards, Image transports, Containers and filesystem storage, nerdctl, containerd, stargz snapshotter, ocicrypt, cosign, bypass4netns, buildg, and more

Session Details:

nerdctl (contaiNERD CTL) was made to facilitate development of new technologies in the containerd platform.

Such technologies include:

nerdctl is also useful for debugging Kubernetes nodes that are running containerd.

Through this session, the audiences will learn these functionalities of nerdctl, relevant projects, and the roadmap for the future.