Repositories list

• runwasi

  Public
  Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd

  kubernetesrustwebassembly+ 3

  kubernetesrustwebassemblywasmcontainerdwasi

  Rust

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •122•1.3k•43•5•Updated Mar 26, 2026Mar 26, 2026

• containerd

  Public
  An open and reliable container runtime

  dockerkubernetescontainers+ 5

  dockerkubernetescontainerscncfocicrihacktoberfestcontainerd

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •3.9k•21k•316•263•Updated Mar 26, 2026Mar 26, 2026

• nerdctl

  Public
  contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

  containerd

  containerd

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •754•9.9k•310•61•Updated Mar 25, 2026Mar 25, 2026

• nydus-snapshotter

  Public
  A containerd snapshotter with data deduplication and lazy loading in P2P fashion

  container-imagecontainerd-snapshotter

  container-imagecontainerd-snapshotter

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •116•236•12•4•Updated Mar 25, 2026Mar 25, 2026

• containerd.io

  Public
  Website repo for https://containerd.io

  JavaScript

  •

  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

  •47•39•10•3•Updated Mar 25, 2026Mar 25, 2026

• nerdbox

  Public
  containerd sandbox runtime using vms

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •18•96•11•4•Updated Mar 24, 2026Mar 24, 2026

• stargz-snapshotter

  Public
  Fast container image distribution plugin with lazy pulling

  dockercontainersfilesystem+ 2

  dockercontainersfilesystemdocker-imagecontainerd

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •147•1.5k•63•28•Updated Mar 23, 2026Mar 23, 2026

• ttrpc

  Public
  GRPC for low-memory environments

  gogolangstream+ 5

  gogolangstreamprotocolgrpcrpcgolang-librarygolang-package

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •81•646•17•7•Updated Mar 23, 2026Mar 23, 2026

• platforms

  Public
  Go package for handling platform type

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •14•13•2•1•Updated Mar 23, 2026Mar 23, 2026

• accelerated-container-image

  Public
  A production-ready remote container image format (overlaybd) and snapshotter based on block-device.

  containersdocker-imagecontainerd+ 4

  containersdocker-imagecontainerdcontainer-imagesremote-imagecontainerd-snapshotteroverlaybd

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •83•455•30•4•Updated Mar 20, 2026Mar 20, 2026

• imgcrypt

  Public
  OCI Image Encryption Package

  encryptioncontainersgpg+ 2

  encryptioncontainersgpgocioci-image

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •48•424•1•1•Updated Mar 19, 2026Mar 19, 2026

• zfs

  Public
  ZFS snapshotter plugin for containerd

  zfscontainerd

  zfscontainerd

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •25•79•6•1•Updated Mar 19, 2026Mar 19, 2026

• nri

  Public
  Node Resource Interface

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •89•376•37•13•Updated Mar 17, 2026Mar 17, 2026

• overlaybd

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

  storagevirtual-machine-imagesiscsi-target+ 3

  storagevirtual-machine-imagesiscsi-targetblockdevicecontainer-imagesremote-image

  C++

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •69•346•19•2•Updated Mar 17, 2026Mar 17, 2026

• rust-extensions

  Public
  Rust crates to extend containerd

  rustcontainerslogging+ 4

  rustcontainerslogginggrpccontainerdrust-cratecontainerd-snapshotter

  Rust

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •89•226•1•3•Updated Mar 17, 2026Mar 17, 2026

• release-tool

  Public
  A release tool for generating detailed release notes

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •20•35•0•1•Updated Mar 17, 2026Mar 17, 2026

• go-dmverity

  Public
  A pure Go implementation of dm-verity functionality

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •3•3•0•2•Updated Mar 9, 2026Mar 9, 2026

• cgroups

  Public
  cgroups package for Go

  linuxgolangcgroups

  linuxgolangcgroups

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •250•1.2k•15•9•Updated Mar 6, 2026Mar 6, 2026

• project

  Public
  Overall containerd project docs and governance details

  Apache License 2.0

  •50•79•2•0•Updated Feb 13, 2026Feb 13, 2026

• fuse-overlayfs-snapshotter

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

  containerdrootless-containers

  containerdrootless-containers

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •18•50•0•5•Updated Jan 28, 2026Jan 28, 2026

• plugin

  Public
  Package for registering and managing typed plugins with dependencies

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

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

• log

  Public
  Common log interface for containerd repositories and clients

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •4•8•1•0•Updated Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

• go-cni

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

  cnicontainerd

  cnicontainerd

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •65•160•7•11•Updated Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

• continuity

  Public
  A transport-agnostic, filesystem metadata manifest system

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •67•150•31•6•Updated Nov 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025

• otelttrpc

  Public
  Opentelemetry instrumentation support for ttRPC

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

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

• btrfs

  Public
  Btrfs bindings for Go

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •21•71•1•0•Updated Jul 17, 2025Jul 17, 2025

• ttrpc-rust

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

  Rust

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •57•354•15•5•Updated Jul 15, 2025Jul 15, 2025

• console

  Public
  console package for Go

  golangpty

  golangpty

  Go

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •55•197•6•2•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 o…

  Shell

  •

  Apache License 2.0

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

• ltag

  Public
  Prepends project files with given template.

  Go

  •

  MIT License

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