Crun: Fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderIn case anyone is wondering if this signals a shift away from Go in container infrastructure, I don't think so. Docker, Kubernetes, Buildah and Podman are mostly Go code and I don't think there's much intent to change that. I suspect the conclusion (that Go is not ideal for this kind of low level component) is accurate. OTOH, I wish it could be a memory-safe language instead of C. I can only assume there is some decent reason why Rust…
systemd has nspawn, often overlooked ion the container discussion. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-nspawn "systemd-nspawn is like the chroot command, but it is a chroot on steroids. systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container. It is more powerful than chroot since it fully virtualizes the file system hierarchy, as well as the process tree, the various IPC subsystems and the host and domain name. "
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 242
- Total comments
- 94
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-31 | Crun: Fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containersFirst breakout · Best thread | harporoeder | 126 | 45 |
| 2022-10-31 | crun | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-06-04 | Crun: Fast and lightweight OCI runtime and C library for running containersLatest 20+ point return | nateb2022 | 109 | 49 |
| 2025-01-05 | Crun – A fast and lightweight featured OCI runtime | ma5ter | 5 | 0 |