text: **2.4.4 Cloud Native Computing Foundation**
  
  The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global 
  technology infrastructure. For more information, see this website. 
  
  One of the projects under incubation to develop a Kubernetes Container Runtime interface is 
  the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) for OCI (CRI-O). This initiative is explained in this 
  section, including its architecture, benefits, and distinguishing features. 
  
  **CRI-O**
  CRI-O is a project that was started by Red Hat in 2016 to be an open Container Initiative 
  (OCI) that is based the implementation of Kubernetes CRI. This effort contributed to the 
  Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). CRI-O and Kubernetes follows the same 
  release cycle and dependencies. 