MCR Deployment Guide¶
Warning
In correlation with the end of life (EOL) date for MCR 19.03.8+, Mirantis stopped maintaining this documentation version as of 2022-05-27. The latest MCR product documentation is available here.
Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) is a client-server application with these major components:
A server which is a type of long-running program called a daemon process (the dockerd command).
A REST API which specifies interfaces that programs can use to talk to the daemon and instruct it what to do.
A command line interface (CLI) client (the docker command).
MCR can be installed on several Linux distros as well as on Windows.