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.TH containerd(8) 
.PP
containerd is a high performance container runtime whose daemon can be started
by using this command. If none of the \fIconfig\fP, \fIpublish\fP, or \fIhelp\fP commands
are specified, the default action of the \fBcontainerd\fP command is to start the
containerd daemon in the foreground.

.PP
A default configuration is used if no TOML configuration is specified or located
at the default file location. The \fIcontainerd config\fP command can be used to
generate the default configuration for containerd. The output of that command
can be used and modified as necessary as a custom configuration.


.SH 

.SH NAME
.PP
containerd


.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
containerd

.PP
.RS

.nf
[--address|-a]=[value]
[--config|-c]=[value]
[--log-level|-l]=[value]
[--root]=[value]
[--state]=[value]

.fi
.RE

.PP
\fBUsage\fP:

.PP
.RS

.nf
containerd [GLOBAL OPTIONS] command [COMMAND OPTIONS] [ARGUMENTS...]

.fi
.RE


.SH GLOBAL OPTIONS
.PP
\fB--address, -a\fP="": address for containerd's GRPC server

.PP
\fB--config, -c\fP="": path to the configuration file (default: /etc/containerd/config.toml)

.PP
\fB--log-level, -l\fP="": set the logging level [trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic]

.PP
\fB--root\fP="": containerd root directory

.PP
\fB--state\fP="": containerd state directory


.SH COMMANDS
.SH config
.PP
information on the containerd config

.SS default
.PP
see the output of the default config

.SS dump
.PP
see the output of the final main config with imported in subconfig files

.SH publish
.PP
binary to publish events to containerd

.PP
\fB--namespace\fP="": namespace to publish to

.PP
\fB--topic\fP="": topic of the event

.SH oci-hook
.PP
provides a base for OCI runtime hooks to allow arguments to be injected.