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Sep 26, 2024 · Cloud Native

Introduction to OCI: Image, Distribution, and Runtime Specifications in the Code‑to‑Container Workflow

This article explains the Open Container Initiative (OCI) standards—Image-spec, Distribution-spec, and Runtime-spec—detailing how code is built into OCI images, pushed to registries, and executed via Kubernetes components such as kubelet, containerd/CRI‑O, and runc or kata‑containers, ensuring portable, interoperable containers.