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From Docker, Containerd & Standalone Runtimes — Here’s What You Should Know by Aymen El Amri
…r to the version 1.11, Docker engine was used to manage volumes, networks, containers, images etc.. Now, the Docker architecture is broken into four components: Docker engine, containerd, containerd-shm and runC. The binaries are respectively called docker, docker-containerd, docker-containerd-shim, and docker-runc.
From Docker, Containerd & Standalone Runtimes — Here’s What You Should Know by Aymen El Amri
To run a container, Docker engine creates the image, pass it to containerd. containerd calls containerd-shim that uses runC to run the container. Then, containerd-shim allows the runtime (runC in this case) to exit after it starts the container …