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containerd port to darwin: Toward Running Linux containers on macOS

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Sunday, 2021-02-07· at 16:35· D.containers

speaker

name:Hajime Tazaki

speakerdeck:thehajime

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.containers/containers_darwin_containerd.mp4

slides:https://speakerdeck.com/thehajime/fosdem21-darwin-containerd-ctr-devroom

summary

Describes a port of containerd to macOS and running Linux userland directly on macOS using the Linux Kernel Library (LKL) instead of a full VM; explains why this unikernel/library-OS approach was chosen, how the containerd changes integrate with LKL, and expected benefits like lower resource use and kernel-component extensibility. Includes a high-level walkthrough of the related containerd pull request (PR 4526) and a short demo of running Linux containers on Intel macOS (arm64 if available).

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