Possibility of OCI Container Runtime with Rust Toru Komatsu (@utam0k) Senior Enginner at Gitpod 1 

Toru Komatsu, Senior Engineer at Gitpod utam0k utam0k A member of containers organization I develop youki as a hobby 2 

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What I'd like to tell 01 4 

Today you will learn Based on our experience of developing youki, the OCI Runtime in Rust, I'll introduce the compatibility and attractiveness of Rust and OCI Runtime. And about the current status and future of youki. 5 

Agenda 01 What I'd like to tell 02 What is OCI Container Runtime? 03 Why Rust? 04 Where we are now 05 Problems and Future 6 

What is OCI Container Runtime? 02 7 

Kubelet(K8s) Container creation flow from kubelet Linux etc… High-Level Runtime CRI Low-Level Runtime runc runsc kata OCI Container Runtime 8 

How do we create containers? pivot_root(2) Change a destination that the root directory of a process points to namespace(7) Ability to isolate resources that a process can manipulate cgroup Allows configuration of resources available to processes(containers) 9 

Youki OCI Container Runtime in Rust Developed since January 2021 Vendor Neutral Under the Containers organization, which manages podman, etc. https://github.com/containers/youki 4.0K ⭐ on GitHub Provide a Rust library for OCI from a part of youki youki means a container in Japanese 10 

Why Rust? 03 11 

Benefits of using Rust Close to kernel WASM Lighter-weight 12 

Benefits of using Rust WASM Lighter-weight Close to kernel Avoiding namespace restrictions 13 

setns(2) - reassociate thread with a namespace A multithreaded process may not change user namespace with setns(). 14 

netns(2) with Go HighLevelCR HighLevelCR runc create Only Go runc create Only Go runc init C&Go runc init C&Go Create a container Prepare to create a container such as cgroup /proc/self/exec init with args as ENVs Actually create a container 15 

netns(2) with Go HighLevelCR HighLevelCR runc create Only Go runc create Only Go runc init C&Go runc init C&Go Create a container Prepare to create a container such as cgroup /proc/self/exec init with args as ENVs Actually create a container 16 

netns(2) with Go HighLevelCR HighLevelCR runc create Only Go runc create Only Go runc init C&Go runc init C&Go Create a container Prepare to create a container such as cgroup /proc/self/exec init with args as ENVs Actually create a container 17 

netns(2) with Go HighLevelCR HighLevelCR runc create Only Go runc create Only Go runc init C&Go runc init C&Go Create a container Prepare to create a container such as cgroup /proc/self/exec init with args as ENVs Actually create a container 18 

• • • • • There is no limit around the namespace(7) Rust can be implemented alone with a minimum number of clones Fewer potential security holes because no extra operations are required CVE-2019-5736 does not happen with Rust implementation Rust has been adopted as a second language for Linux Ⓒ The Rust foundation 19 

• • buddy-buddy How to use → https://containers.github.io/youki/user /webassembly.html Ⓒ The Rust foundation 20 

Ⓒ The Rust foundation 21 

Benefits of using Rust Close to kernel WASM Lighter-weight 22 

Runtime Language Time (mean ± σ) Range (min … max) crun C 153.5 ms ± 21.6 ms 80.9 ms … 196.6 ms youki Rust 198.4 ms ± 52.1 ms 97.2 ms … 296.1 ms runc Go 352.3 ms ± 53.3 ms 248.3 ms … 772.2 ms Time from container startup to deletion 23 

What kind of future can you imagine with lightweight container runtime? IoT? running it in a car? lighter-weight 24 

Benefits of using Rust Close to kernel Avoiding namespace restrictions WASM New Possibilities Lighter-weight Less memory used, better performance 25 

Why Go? Why Rust? To begin with, runc was initially part of Docker and spun out from it. Much used in this community and has a lot of history. Go is mature in this area. Therefore, libraries are abundant But there is a problem that cannot be solved around the namespace. In other words, it cannot be implemented by Go alone, strictly. Why Go? Simple, safe, and incidentally light However, there is not much history and libraries. Why Rust? 26 

Where we are now 04 27 

Fighting with the real • ✅ Test for OCI Runtime prepared by OCI ✅ Containerd integration test Achieved primarily through @YJDoc2 28 

For Kubernetes ✅ kubeadm supported youki 29 

Advanced Features ✅ WASM ✅ cgroup v2 ✅ Rootless 30 

Problems and Future 05 31 

Problems Old kernels Experience 32 

Problems Old kernels Experience 33 

We are creating the future Ideally, we have to support old Linux kernels, but it is challenging, and other container runtimes have already been supported. We would like to imagine beautiful futures with the latest kernel technology instead of dropping them off. 34 

Problems Old kernels Experience 35 

Standing on the shoulders of giants Let's use the history of OCI Container Runtime pioneers! OCI Runtime is just a binary. Let's cheat on the name and use the giant test. 36 

Roadmap/ upcoming tasks/ events 2023・2024 Pass the integration test of runc and others containers/youki#1305 OpenTelemetry tracing support to extend observability containers/youki#1348 Contribute to WASM world containers/youki#1320 Consider ideas using the latest technologies such as eBPF and io_uring 37 

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runwasi • • • • • • • • Low-level container runtime designed for WASM in Rust Still not meeting OCI Runtime Spec Used by Docker WAM Azure Kubernetes Service for WASM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-wasi- node-pools repo: containers/runwasi First committed by Deis Labs, a Microsoft group company 39 

youki 　 　runwasi 40 

Thanks to all the heroes who contributed to youki 41 

Thanks! Any question? Toru Komatsu utam0k utam0k github.com/containers/youki 42