I asked myself the same question a little while back, and landed here: https://blog.docker.com/2017/08/what-is-containerd-runtime/ https://blog.docker.com/2017

I asked myself the same question a little while back, and landed here: https://blog.docker.com/2017/08/what-is-containerd-runtime/ https://blog.docker.com/2017/08/what-is-containerd-runtime/ Although I ended up coming out of it with more acronyms in hand, and perhaps only slightly less confusion than when I went into it.