# Containerd CRI API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-cri-api/  
**Provider:** Containerd — https://apis.io/providers/containerd/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/containerd/containerd/tree/main/pkg/cri

Containerd CRI API is one of 4 APIs that [Containerd](https://apis.io/providers/containerd/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Container Runtime, CRI, and Kubernetes. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and 1 JSON Schema.

Container Runtime Interface (CRI) implementation that enables Kubernetes to use containerd as its container runtime. Supports pod sandbox management, container lifecycle operations, image pulling, and streaming APIs for exec, attach, and port-forward.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://containerd.io/docs/
- **Reference** — https://github.com/containerd/containerd/tree/main/pkg/cri
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/containerd/refs/heads/main/json-schema/containerd-config-schema.json

## Other Containerd APIs (3)

- [Containerd gRPC API](https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-grpc-api/)
- [Containerd NRI API](https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-nri-api/)
- [Containerd Metrics API](https://apis.io/apis/containerd/containerd-metrics-api/)

## Tags

Container Runtime, CRI, Kubernetes

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