Docker and CI/CD · Senior · Question 2 of 75
How do Docker, containerd and runc relate?
- ✓Correct answer: Docker uses containerd to manage containers; runc starts them
- 2They are competing tools that can't be installed together
- 3runc is a Docker plugin; containerd is its GUI for desktops
Explanation
runc implements the OCI runtime spec and creates the process with namespaces and cgroups. containerd manages images and lifecycles; Kubernetes talks to containerd directly without Docker.