tools.md

1) Container Runtime (Engine)

• Handles everything after image creation

  • Docker Engine

    • uses containerd under the hood

  • Podman

    • uses CRI-O under the hood
    • rootless, deamonless, pod concept (similar to kubernetes)

  • Containerd

    • simplicity, performance, secutity. default in kubernetes

  • CRI-O

    • used by podman, openshift

2) Image Management (bulding etc)

• building, pushing/pulling from repos

  • Docker
  • Podman
  • Buildah
  • Kaniko

3) Container Orchestrator

• uses a container runtime engine to instantiate a container while adding sophisticated features like scalability, networking

  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • Nomad
  • Rancher

4) Package Manager

• Application (containerized)
  • multiple containers working together as one (logical) application
• Package Manager simplifies/automates the packaging/configuration of containerized applications (as a single unit) within a container orchestration platform
  • Helm