The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is comprised of a diverse set of members that are committed to creating an open industry standard around a container image format and runtime backed by a certification program. The runtime and image format standards being developed by the OCI are essential to furthering the proliferation and adoption of containers as they give everyone the ability to fully commit to container technologies today without worrying that their current choice of infrastructure, cloud provider or tooling will lock them in. The OCI is a Collaborative Project hosted by The Linux Foundation.