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runc
CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

Go · 13453 stars
image-spec
OCI Image Format

Go · 4474 stars
distribution-spec
OCI Distribution Specification

Go · 1142 stars
go-digest
Common digest package used across the container ecosystem

Go · 223 stars
selinux
common selinux implementation

Go · 182 stars
tob
Technical Oversight Board (TOB)

91 stars
oci-conformance
OCI Conformance/Certification Working Group

HTML · 85 stars
cgroups

Go · 29 stars

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`--preserve-fds` leaks runc's own file descriptors when fewer FDs are actually passed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

opencontainers/runc#5474 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
systemd/v2: swap disabled via MemorySwap == Memory is not exported as MemorySwapMax, so daemon-reload resets memory.swap.max to max Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

opencontainers/cgroups#74 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
ImageID: allow hashing index instead of config Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1333 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 19, 2026
systemd: addCPUQuota overflows int64 for a large CPU quota, writing a tiny value Open

llm-generated

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

opencontainers/cgroups#73 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
rshared propagation (bind mount options and rootfsPropagation) silently results in private mounts; Kubernetes mountPropagation=Bidirectional inert (runc 1.4.2) Open

llm-generated

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

opencontainers/runc#5390 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Clarify whether registries may accept uploads before content is publicly pullable Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/distribution-spec#621 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Add an optional pre-exec wait FIFO to `runc exec` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

opencontainers/runc#5373 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2026
`root.readonly` is silently ignored (rootfs left writable) when the container has no mount namespace Open

llm-generated

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

opencontainers/runc#5371 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
`runc state` reports a CRIU-restored container as `running` after its process has exited Open

llm-generated

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

opencontainers/runc#5370 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
cgroup ownership (delegation chown) is only implemented in the systemd cgroup manager, not the fs driver Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

opencontainers/cgroups#66 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Consider moving the mockCgroup from runc Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

opencontainers/cgroups#61 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Validate mount options for null bytes (\u0000) early to provide clearer error messages Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

opencontainers/runc#5320 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 14, 2026
error mounting "sysfs" to rootfs at "/sys" when creating pod with hostUsers: false and privileged:true with kind Open

kind/question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 46/100

opencontainers/runc#5309 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2026
Prestart hooks fail during CRIU restore: container mount tree not yet restored at setup-namespaces notification Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

opencontainers/runc#5296 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 22, 2026
/proc/self/exe and page-cache poisoning Open

opencontainers/runc#5272 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 10, 2026
Proposal: Add Bulk Blob Download Links API Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

opencontainers/distribution-spec#608 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2026
cgroup v2: unsafe cgroupfs mount when cgroup namespace is disabled Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

opencontainers/runc#5258 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2026
exec.fifo handling is way too complicated Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

opencontainers/runc#5251 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Why does OCI Image Layout not match the OCI Distribution Spec paths? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1310 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2026
In my test, the versions 1.2.8-1.4.1 of runc do not support the parameter "tty:true" for Kubernetes pods. The containers remain in the process of creation. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

opencontainers/runc#5176 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2026
feature: PoC to mknod devices for user namespace containers Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/runc#5137 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Add integration test to checkpoint / restore container with userns and non default host id Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

opencontainers/runc#5121 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2026
Number of OCI TOB Seats Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

opencontainers/tob#155 · 11 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2026
[RFC] Explicit kernel version requirements? Open

area/docs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/runc#5113 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2026
Proposal: org.opencontainers.image.base.source Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1308 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 10, 2026
Cleanup needed for the OCI template biolerplate text Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/cgroups#56 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Content Negotiation does not match implementation behavior Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opencontainers/distribution-spec#596 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 21, 2026
Indefinite parent hang in ReadPacket upon abnormal child exit after procRun Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

opencontainers/runc#5087 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2026
is there CRUD api for repositories in the spec? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/distribution-spec#592 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 9, 2026
runc use systemd driver cause oom event lost because file memory.events delete too quickly Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/runc#5071 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2025
runc cannot mount host root as container root (`[...] is on the top of rootfs [...]`) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

opencontainers/runc#5070 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2025
runc selinux library use 100% cpu Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/runc#5048 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 27, 2025
uniqMcs use 100% cpu Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

opencontainers/selinux#247 · 14 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2025
Ordering problem with ExecCPUAffinity and sched_setaffinity Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/runc#5036 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 20, 2025
Fail build if libseccomp below some minimum version? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opencontainers/runc#5002 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2025
[rfc] LLM policy? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/runc#4990 · 12 comments · 47 reactions · Opened Nov 9, 2025
cgroupv1 has been deprecated (will be maintained until May 2029) Open

area/cgroupv1

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/runc#4955 · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Test failures on Ubuntu containers (`no cgroup mount found in mountinfo`) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

opencontainers/cgroups#49 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Enhancement: Add option to delete all stopped containers in `runc delete` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

opencontainers/runc#4933 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2025
releases: add Docker image to release artefacts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/runc#4929 · Opened Oct 13, 2025
`Cotent-Range` and `Range` syntax expected by this spec deviates from RFC 7233 (HTTP/1.1 Range Requests) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opencontainers/distribution-spec#586 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Proposal: Adding security information like in security.txt Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1283 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2025
Proposal: search repository and filter by ordered property, prune by ordered property Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/distribution-spec#584 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2025
rshared submount is not clearly umount in host Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

opencontainers/runc#4849 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2025
Feature add VTPM support for runc container Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/runc#4843 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2025
All read-only mounts set through the CSI plugin have failed. Open

kind/question status/needs-more-information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/runc#4824 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2025
container main process cpu affinity is different on different kernel Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

opencontainers/runc#4814 · Opened Jul 16, 2025
why each image must only have one layer lines, but not a multiple-root layer tree? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1270 · 29 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2025
What's the expected "GET chunked blob" when the uploaded content is empty Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/distribution-spec#578 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 15, 2025
Add parsing of memory.events max into Failcnt for cgroup v2 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

opencontainers/cgroups#19 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 1, 2025

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