The Open Container Initiative (OCI) project has published a version of the OCI Runtime specification 1.3. The specification defines the behavior and configuration interface for launching and managing isolated containers, unifying interaction with low-level runtime components, such as runc, crun, youki, gVisor and Kata Containers. OCI Runtime provides interchangeability of similar components in high-level toolkits such as containerd and CRI-O.
The release of OCI Runtime 1.3 is notable adding to the FreeBSD platform support specification, which uses the mechanism to isolate containers href=”https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/”>FreeBSD Jails. You can use runj as a low-level runtime in FreeBSD. Official support in the OCI Runtime highlights the ability to use FreeBSD with OCI-compatible high-level containerization and orchestration tools, and makes the FreeBSD platform more attractive for use in cloud infrastructures and enterprise systems that adhere to industry standards.