xpipe containerd

Any plans to support containerd+runc ?

Oct 11 '25 16:10 ben-auo

I can take a look at it to check whether it would be possible to implement

Oct 11 '25 17:10 crschnick

Looking at this now, is there any obvious reason why you would use runc compared to all the other container platforms out there?

Nov 24 '25 04:11 crschnick

Many IoT devices don't have the compute/memory resources to run a full Docker/Podman stack.

Nov 25 '25 01:11 ben-auo

Since I have no idea about this, why would you host a container on an iot device in the first place?

Nov 25 '25 01:11 crschnick

Over-the-Air updates with safe rollback

Nov 25 '25 04:11 ben-auo

Would such containers with a very small footprint even support a normal shell? It is also a common problem with docker containers that are made to be limited in size that there is no shell installed that xpipe can open for the container.

If that is the case, then many container integration features of xpipe don't work. You can only really use it to start, stop, etc the containers

Nov 25 '25 05:11 crschnick

Small IoT devices can still run small Linux distros, like Alpine Linux, with shells. Then you just run runc exec -t -u 0 $FULL_CONTAINER_ID sh

Nov 27 '25 12:11 ben-auo