Container Daemon

Definitions

1. A long-running background process that manages container lifecycle operations such as image pulls, creation, startup, networking, and cleanup. Container daemons are core infrastructure in many container systems, though some newer runtimes reduce or replace the need for one central background service.

   In plain English: The background service that manages containers on a machine.

   Example: "The node looked idle, but the container daemon was stuck cleaning up dead layers and delaying new task launches."

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