Application Kernel for Containers
OCI runtime that runs containers on a user-space kernel for isolation, at some cost in syscall speed.
- Language
- Go
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 20k
- Latest
- release-20260928.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
4 tools replace runc, 4 of them drop-in
Application Kernel for Containers
OCI runtime that runs containers on a user-space kernel for isolation, at some cost in syscall speed.
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
OCI runtime that runs each container or pod in a lightweight virtual machine.
A container runtime written in Rust
OCI runtime written in Rust.
A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers
OCI runtime written in C, used by Podman by default.
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