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OCI Runtime Specification

The OCI Runtime Specification defines the configuration, execution environment and lifecycle of a container — what a runtime is handed and what operations it must support — so that runc, crun, and other runtimes are interchangeable.

github.com/opencontainers/runti...The standard

Open Container InitiativeGoverning body · Linux Foundation

2016First published

1.3.0 (2024)Current version

Yes — JSON SchemaMachine-readable schema · open

0providers in the catalog

Also known as runtime-spec, OCI Runtime.

Providers that carry OCI Runtime Specification 0

No provider in the catalog carries this standard as a tag yet. That is a statement about the catalog's tagging, not about adoption: a provider that implements OCI Runtime Specification and says so in its APIs.json profile appears here on the next build. Add or correct a listing.

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