Today containerd graduated within the CNCF to join the ranks of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and CoreDNS as a “graduated” project in the CNCF. From Michael Crosby on the Docker blog:

We are happy to announce that as of today, containerd, an industry-standard runtime for building container solutions, graduates within the CNCF.

From Docker’s initial announcement that it was spinning out its core runtime to its donation to the CNCF in March 2017, the containerd project has experienced significant growth and progress over the last two years. The primary goal of Docker’s donation was to foster further innovation in the container ecosystem by providing a core container runtime that could be leveraged by container system vendors and orchestration projects such as Kubernetes, Swarm, etc.