Introduction containerd - a core container runtime project for the Industry
Today Docker is spinning out its core container runtime functionality into a standalone component, incorporating it into a separate project called containerd, and will be donating it to a neutral foundation early next year. This is the latest chapter in a multi-year effort to break up the Docker platform into a more modular architecture of loosely coupled components.
Over the past 3 years, as Docker adoption skyrocketed, it grew into a complete platform to build, ship and run distributed applications, covering many functional areas from infrastructure to orchestration, the core container runtime being just a piece of it. For millions of developers and IT pros, a complete platform is exactly what they need. But many platform builders and operators are looking for “boring infrastructure”: a basic component that provides the robust primitives for running containers on their system, bundled in a stable interface, and nothing else.containerd is component that they can customize, extend and swap out as needed, without unnecessary abstraction getting in their way and built to provide exactly that. Learn More
Because we know many of you want to know how the internals work, we thought we would share the current state of containerd, how it fits in Docker 1.12 and what we plan for containerd version 1.0. Learn More in this blog post or sign up to attend the containerd livestream Meetup. 
DockerCon 2017: Registration and CFP Now Open!
DockerCon 2017 tickets are now available! Take advantage of Early Bird pricing before tickets sell out! We have extended DockerCon to a three-day conference with repeat sessions, hands-on labs and summits taking place on Thursday. Also, we're happy to announce that the DockerCon 2017 Call for Proposals is now open! The deadline for submissions is January 14, 2017 at 11:59 PST. Learn More
