containerd/cgroups

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1191 stars · 251 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go package for creating, managing, inspecting, and destroying Linux cgroups, supporting both cgroup v1 and v2 hierarchies. It uses the OCI runtime-spec resource format and is maintained by the containerd project.

Use cases

• manage linux cgroups from a go application
• limit cpu and memory usage of processes
• create systemd slices for process groups
• monitor cgroup memory and cpu stats
• freeze and thaw process groups
• move processes between cgroups
• get notified on cgroup memory events

When to choose

• you need programmatic cgroup management in Go
• you are building a container runtime or process supervisor
• you need both cgroup v1 and v2 support
• you want OCI runtime-spec compatible resource constraints

When to avoid

• you need cgroup management outside Go
• you target non-Linux platforms
• you just want to inspect cgroups from the shell (use systemd or cgget tools)
• you need a full container runtime rather than a cgroup library

Facets

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developer-tools configuration-management monitoring operating-systems developer-tools go cgroups cgroup-v1 cgroup-v2 systemd oci-runtime-spec resource-limits container-runtime process-isolation containers devops linux

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