Container runtime interface - CRI in K8S

OCI - open container initiative

For containerD:

ctr - debug

nerdctl - docker like ctl general purposes

For K8S (debug):

critl provides a CLI for CRI compatible container runtimes

used to inspect and debug container runtimes - not to create containers ideally

works across different runtimes

crilctl to interact with CRI

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https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/tools/map-crictl-dockercli/