Container Engine

Definitions

1. The runtime software responsible for creating, starting, stopping, and managing containers and their images. Container engines provide the low-level mechanics behind higher-level workflows like local development, CI execution, and cluster scheduling.

   In plain English: The software that runs and manages containers.

   Example: "They changed the container engine in CI because the previous one handled image layering and cgroup limits differently from production."

Related Terms

• Docker
• Container Image
• Container Network
• Container Orchestration
• Container Registry
• Container Runtime
• CSS Container Query
• Dev Container
• Base Image
• Container Compose
• Container Layer