Container Collections

Overview

Container Collections is a bin to store lists of container things I'm collecting, comparing, contrasting, or simply listing for future reference.

Container Terms

• OCI - Open Container Initiative [Wiki] [Github]
  • runc - OCI reference implmentation container runtime
• CRE - Container Runtime Engine - Parent process for containers and its namespaces.
• Linux Namespaces - Partitioning of resources in kernel. (Fundamental to containerization!)
  • Container - A tree of processes that have been launched within a set of linux namespaces via the clone() syscall.
• Docker - Container Orchestration
• Kubernetes - Container Orchestration
  • CRI - Container Runtime Interface [Docs]
  • etcd - key-value store
  • kubelet - per node k8s management agent
  • pod - scheduling unit in k8s ... also a single network namespace

Container OS Distributions

• CoreOS
• Flatcar

Container Images

• X-Tools - Images to build niche cross toolchains.
  • GitHub Repo

Runtimes

• CRI-O [GitHub] - Lightweight container runtime
• containerd - Std K8S container runtime
• sysbox - VM-ish container runtime
• rkt

Kubernetes Providers

• Kubernetes
• K3s
• K0s
• Openshift/OKD.IO [Github]

K8S Frameworks

• FluxCD
• ArgoCD
• Helm - K8S Package Manager
• Karmada - Manage applications across multiple K8S clusters.
• KubeVirt - ?K8S managed virtualization?

Container Storage Interfaces (CSI)

• Longhorn
• kadalu

K8S Tools

• Krew - kubectl plugin manager
  • Ketall - For real "get all" for kubectl.
• [Kubespray] - Too to provision K8S across resources (i.e. nodes).