containerd packages are missing the crictl binary

[Craig Ringer]

The containerd project supplies the crictl binary to provide a stable machine-friendly interface for interacting with the containerd server.

This binary is omitted from the Ubuntu packages for containerd. They do include the 'ctr' binary, but this is much less useful and has a less stable interface across versions.

Please package the crictl binary too. It should be built already as part of a regular containerd build.

[Craig Ringer (ringerc)]

It's somewhat possible to work around using 'ctr' but it lacks the ability to expose a lot of the relevant info, such as k8s pod and pod namespace etc.

[Craig Ringer (ringerc)]

Quoting the help output from "ctr"

ctr is an unsupported debug and administrative client for interacting
with the containerd daemon. Because it is unsupported, the commands,
options, and operations are not guaranteed to be backward compatible or
stable from release to release of the containerd project.

[Paride Legovini (paride)]

I am not familiar with crictl, but assuming that this can be done by enabling some build time option (to actually build the tool), this looks like a reasonable request to me.

I subscribed Lucas Kanashiro to this bug, as he's more familiar with the package than me.

Please note that this won't happen before the next Ubuntu development cycle.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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