Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface

Acronym

CRI

Quote

"The CRI is an integration point between Kubernetes and container runtimes that makes pods (groups of containers) work in Kubernetes clusters."

Source

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/staging/src/k8s.io/cri-api/pkg/apis/runtime/v1alpha2/api.proto

Url

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2016/12/container-runtime-interface-cri-in-kubernetes/