opencontainers/runc
CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 20 days ago, with 345 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #62 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 2, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Spawns and runs containers on Linux using the OCI specification via a command-line interface.
- Provides a lightweight, low-level container runtime that integrates seamlessly with higher-level container tools.
- Use for building custom container runtimes or integrating container lifecycle management in Linux environments.
- Use for running rootless containers to enable container execution without requiring root privileges.
- Use for implementing container supervision and restart mechanisms with systemd or other init systems.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
runcis a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification.You can find official releases of
runcon the release page.All releases are signed by one of the keys listed in the
runc.keyringfile in the root of this repository.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
2.3K+27
Open issues
199-132
Compared with peers in DevOps
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| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 13.5K | +6.0K | 45 | today |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 19.7K | +2.4K | 60 | 2 days ago |
| AstrBotDevs/AstrBot | 46.2K | +1.4K | 65 | 5 days ago |
| elie222/rakazo | 7.2K | +922 | 59 | 26 days ago |
| superplanehq/superplane | 8.8K | +435 | 60 | 7 days ago |
| opencontainers/runc | 13.5K | — | 64 | 20 days ago |
| Category median | 13.5K | +1.4K | 60 | — |
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