Open Container Initiative (OCI)

The Linux Foundation Open Container Initiative (OCI) can be summarized by this quote on its homepage4:

4 https://opencontainers.org/

The Open Container Initiative is an open governance structure for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtimes.

In essence, OCI specifies the standards around Containers and Container-runtimes. They specify three major things related to Containers:

• The Container runtime (aka runtime-spec) – the things the runtime must do and the interfaces it must support
• The Container image (aka image-spec) – the structure of the Container image produced in your build chain that you would write to disk and distribute to the Container runtime
• The Container distribution protocol (aka distribution-spec) – the protocol used to deliver a Container to a particular runtime instance

Important note

The Container industry tends to refer...