rkt is a modern container runtime, built for security, efficiency, and composability. Kubernetes is a modern cluster orchestration system. Kubernetes doesn't directly execute application Containers but instead delegates to a container runtime, which is integrated at the kubelet (node) level. When Kubernetes first launched, it only supported one container runtime engine - but in recent months, we've been hard at work integrating rkt as an alternative container runtime, aka rktnetes. The goal of rktnetes is to have first-class integration between rkt and the kubelet, and allow Kubernetes users to take advantage of some of rkt's unique features.
This talk will describe how rkt works, some of the features that make it unique as a container runtime, and some of the process of integrating an alternative container runtime with Kubernetes, as well as the latest state of rktnetes.
