Intro: containerd

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containerd is a lightweight OCI-compliant runtime started in 2016, integrated into Docker 1.11, donated to CNCF, and at 1.2 it stabilizes the runtime shim API to support VM runtimes like Kata and gVisor. Kubernetes talks to containerd via a built‑in CRI plugin, developers debug with ctr and CRI implementations with crictl, snapshotters include overlay/btrfs/aufs, Prometheus exposes per‑container metrics, namespaces isolate multiple clients, and production use runs in GKE and IBM Cloud with continuous stress testing.

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2. 5:20Design Goals
3. 25:13Getting Started
4. 25:51Demo

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