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What is the OCI, and why does it matter?

The Open Container Initiative defines open standards for container image formats (image-spec) and runtime behavior (runtime-spec), which lets different tools (Docker, Podman, containerd, CRI-O) interoperate — an image built by one OCI-compliant tool can run on any other compliant runtime.

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