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EKS — Windows with Containerd
AWS announces support of containerd for windows amis running inside EKS. The article provides more details on this.
AWS announced few days back (Mar 14, 2022) that the Elastic Kubernetes Service a.k.a EKS, now supports the containerd container runtime on Windows worker nodes. This will benefit the customers which are running their containers on windows and wants similar performance, security, and stability benefits from containerd that are available to customers running linux-based containers.
Containerd for always there !
But isn’t the case that containerd was already present in the container ecosystem?
Docker used it as an underline container runtime which typically runs as the daemon and manages container life cycle through downloading, starting, stopping, deleting, and many other container functions.
You can see in the above architecture diagram how containerd is facilitating the low level container functions on top of cgroups, namespaces and other operating system functions. Unfortunately this was limited to linux only.
