OPEN CONTAINER INITIATIVE

AN OPEN GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF CREATING OPEN INDUSTRY STANDARDS AROUND CONTAINER FORMATS AND RUNTIME

Established in June 2015 by Docker and other leaders in the container industry, the OCI currently contains two specifications: the Runtime Specification (runtime-spec) and the Image Specification (image-spec). The Runtime Specification outlines how to run a “filesystem bundle” that is unpacked on disk. At a high-level an OCI implementation would download an OCI Image then unpack that image into an OCI Runtime filesystem bundle. At this point the OCI Runtime Bundle would be run by an OCI Runtime.

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September 21, 2017 in Blog

OCI Welcomes New Project Maintainers

Following the recent release of OCI v1.0 (runtime-spec / image-spec) and a summer break, the work continues and the community is busy. We had a great panel and strong showing…

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September 11, 2017 in Blog

OCI Member Spotlight: EasyStack

The OCI community is comprised of a diverse set of member companies that are committed to creating open industry standards around a container image format and runtime. This blog series…

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August 21, 2017 in Blog

Fostering Diversity and Inclusivity at DockerCon Europe

It’s incredibly important to the Open Container Initiative (OCI) community, as well as the larger container ecosystem, to build a community of inclusiveness that helps provide opportunities to underrepresented and…

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