Six months after containerd 2.0 reached general availability there is enough real-world mileage to judge the migration from the 1.x branch in production. We cover what changes in the config file, what breaks on Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, and when planning the jump actually pays off.
containerd is the runtime that runs containers in most modern Kubernetes clusters, and almost nobody notices. It manages the full container lifecycle: pulling the image, starting it, networking, and mounting the filesystem. It became the default runtime after Kubernetes 1.24 removed dockershim in May 2022.
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