Lifecycle guide for Container Network Interface from Container Network Interface

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-01-19

What is Container Network Interface?

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CNI (Container Network Interface), a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, consists of a specification and libraries for writing plugins to configure network interfaces in Linux containers, along with a number of supported plugins. CNI concerns itself only with network connectivity of containers and removing allocated resources when the container is deleted. Because of this focus, CNI has a wide range of support and the specification is simple to implement.

The entire lifecycle of Container Network Interface

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Container Network Interface. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.