cardinal 1.1 — first stable release
The lightweight no-daemon container runtime reaches its first stable release.
cardinal (then still known as dck) ships its first stable release: a single
static binary that runs containers directly on the Linux kernel — no dockerd,
no background daemon, nothing to babysit.
The core model is already in place:
- Namespaces — PID, mount, network, UTS, and IPC isolation via
unshare. - Overlay filesystem — a writable diff layer on top of a read-only image.
- Bridge networking — containers join a private bridge with per-container IPs.
- systemd supervisor —
cardinal bootstrap --installwires up a persistent
service so containers recover automatically on boot.
cardinal run -d -n web -p 8080:80 nginx:alpine
curl http://localhost:8080
It's the foundation everything else in this changelog builds on.