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title: containerd overview
short: Overview
weight: 1
---

Welcome to the containerd documentation! This document contains some basic project-level information about containerd.

If you'd like to get started running containerd locally on your machine, see the [Getting started](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md) guide.

See also other docs: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/tree/main/docs

## Repositories

The containerd project is encapsulated in a variety of [GitHub](https://github.com) repositories.

See https://github.com/containerd .
