Repositories list

• runwasi

  Public
  Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd

  kubernetesrustwebassembly+ 3wasmcontainerdwasi

  Rust

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  Apache License 2.0

  •118•1.3k•41•18•Updated Jan 18, 2026Jan 18, 2026

• nerdctl

  Public

  containerd/nerdctl’s past year of commit activity
  contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

  containerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •731•9.7k•303•51•Updated Jan 17, 2026Jan 17, 2026

• containerd

  Public

  containerd/containerd’s past year of commit activity
  An open and reliable container runtime

  dockerkubernetescontainers+ 5cncfocicrihacktoberfestcontainerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •3.8k•20k•295•214•Updated Jan 17, 2026Jan 17, 2026

• stargz-snapshotter

  Public

  containerd/stargz-snapshotter’s past year of commit activity
  Fast container image distribution plugin with lazy pulling

  dockercontainersfilesystem+ 2docker-imagecontainerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •141•1.5k•59•12•Updated Jan 16, 2026Jan 16, 2026

• accelerated-container-image

  Public

  containerd/accelerated-container-image’s past year of commit activity
  A production-ready remote container image format (overlaybd) and snapshotter based on block-device.

  containersdocker-imagecontainerd+ 4container-imagesremote-imagecontainerd-snapshotteroverlaybd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •82•445•30•3•Updated Jan 14, 2026Jan 14, 2026

• nri

  Public

  containerd/nri’s past year of commit activity
  Node Resource Interface

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •86•354•35•16•Updated Jan 13, 2026Jan 13, 2026

• nydus-snapshotter

  Public

  containerd/nydus-snapshotter’s past year of commit activity
  A containerd snapshotter with data deduplication and lazy loading in P2P fashion

  container-imagecontainerd-snapshotter

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •114•230•43•14•Updated Jan 13, 2026Jan 13, 2026

• nerdbox

  Public

  containerd/nerdbox’s past year of commit activity
  containerd sandbox runtime using vms

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •13•69•10•6•Updated Jan 13, 2026Jan 13, 2026

• cgroups

  Public

  containerd/cgroups’s past year of commit activity
  cgroups package for Go

  linuxgolangcgroups

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •249•1.2k•15•10•Updated Jan 12, 2026Jan 12, 2026

• ttrpc

  Public

  containerd/ttrpc’s past year of commit activity
  GRPC for low-memory environments

  gogolangstream+ 5protocolgrpcrpcgolang-librarygolang-package

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •83•638•17•5•Updated Jan 12, 2026Jan 12, 2026

• go-dmverity

  Public
  A pure Go implementation of dm-verity functionality

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •2•1•0•1•Updated Jan 12, 2026Jan 12, 2026

• overlaybd

  Public
  Overlaybd: a block based remote image format. The storage backend of containerd/accelerated-container-image.

  storagevirtual-machine-imagesiscsi-target+ 3blockdevicecontainer-imagesremote-image

  C++

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  Apache License 2.0

  •67•333•20•3•Updated Jan 9, 2026Jan 9, 2026

• containerd.io

  Public
  Website repo for https://containerd.io

  JavaScript

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  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

  •46•39•12•3•Updated Jan 8, 2026Jan 8, 2026

• plugin

  Public
  Package for registering and managing typed plugins with dependencies

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •6•7•0•1•Updated Jan 7, 2026Jan 7, 2026

• rust-extensions

  Public
  Rust crates to extend containerd

  rustcontainerslogging+ 4grpccontainerdrust-cratecontainerd-snapshotter

  Rust

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  Apache License 2.0

  •87•225•2•4•Updated Jan 7, 2026Jan 7, 2026

• imgcrypt

  Public
  OCI Image Encryption Package

  encryptioncontainersgpg+ 2ocioci-image

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •48•419•1•0•Updated Jan 7, 2026Jan 7, 2026

• project

  Public
  Overall containerd project docs and governance details

  Apache License 2.0

  •49•80•2•0•Updated Jan 5, 2026Jan 5, 2026

• fuse-overlayfs-snapshotter

  Public
  fuse-overlayfs plugin for rootless containerd on old Linux (not needed on modern Linux)

  containerdrootless-containers

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •18•50•0•4•Updated Dec 24, 2025Dec 24, 2025

• zfs

  Public
  ZFS snapshotter plugin for containerd

  zfscontainerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •25•79•6•0•Updated Dec 15, 2025Dec 15, 2025

• log

  Public
  Common log interface for containerd repositories and clients

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •4•9•1•0•Updated Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

• go-cni

  Public
  A generic CNI library to provide APIs for CNI plugin interactions

  cnicontainerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •65•159•7•10•Updated Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

• release-tool

  Public
  A release tool for generating detailed release notes

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •20•36•0•4•Updated Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

• continuity

  Public
  A transport-agnostic, filesystem metadata manifest system

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •68•151•31•6•Updated Nov 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025

• otelttrpc

  Public
  Opentelemetry instrumentation support for ttRPC

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •4•4•0•10•Updated Nov 17, 2025Nov 17, 2025

• platforms

  Public
  Go package for handling platform type

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •14•13•2•4•Updated Nov 5, 2025Nov 5, 2025

• btrfs

  Public
  Btrfs bindings for Go

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •22•71•1•0•Updated Jul 17, 2025Jul 17, 2025

• ttrpc-rust

  Public
  Rust implementation of ttrpc (GRPC for low-memory environments)

  Rust

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  Apache License 2.0

  •57•350•15•5•Updated Jul 15, 2025Jul 15, 2025

• console

  Public
  console package for Go

  golangpty

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •55•194•6•1•Updated May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

• project-checks

  Public
  This cross-project repository holds utilities, scripts, and common files used across the containerd master project and many sub-projects within the containerd organization

  Shell

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  Apache License 2.0

  •9•6•7•0•Updated Mar 4, 2025Mar 4, 2025

• ltag

  Public
  Prepends project files with given template.

  Go

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  MIT License

  •10•18•2•1•Updated Mar 4, 2025Mar 4, 2025