The Security-Minded Container Engine by CoreOS: rkt Hits 1.0
> "Despite the importance of a shared standard, after six months of effort the Open Container Initiative (OCI) body has yet to decide whether it should or should not develop and standardize an image format. Today, the primary focus of the OCI community is creating standards for the container runtime environment, rather than the container image. Specs for container runtime features are also a worthy discussion, but we think there is a more urgent need – and a more open, industry-wide upside – for a standard container image specification."<p>I haven't been following the OCI at all, but could somebody shed some light as to why the runtime is the most important part to standardize? Also, any insight as to whether or not the container image format should be standardized?