Container-Related Standards and Projects
Learn about the key standards and governance bodies shaping the container ecosystem, specifically the OCI and CNCF.
There are several important standards and governance bodies influencing the development of containers and the container ecosystem. Some of these include:
- The OCI
- The CNCF
- The Moby Project
The Open Container Initiative (OCI)
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is a governance council responsible for low-level container-related standards. It operates under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation and was founded in the early days of the container ecosystem when some of the people at a company called CoreOS didn’t like the way Docker was dominating the ecosystem. In response, CoreOS created an open standard called appc that defined specifications for things such as image format and container runtime. ...