I regret to inform you that you are not understanding this point regarding the daemon correctly. The containerd process is a replacement for the dockerd. It's just a new daemon I apologize I didn't address this clearly in the blog - I was a bit flippant in using dockerd only when I should have mentioned containerd.
I agree that when you're working within the Docker Swarm type community there was probably little incentive to to anything based on RHs blog post.
I'm very sorry to hear that Dan Walsh was the butt of many jokes at Docker. Dan Walsh did so much for the Docker community at the start - SELinux work being just one area of his many important contributions to making Docker successful.
We removed it because we have decided to support one OCI based container toolset in RHEL. Just like we switched from our home grown open source cartridge approach and dropped it to Dockers homegrown based approach in RHEL and OpenShift we had to do the same. We did this with our Gear versus Kubernetes versus Swarm versus Mesos approach. All of these are really good technologies. I myself advocated some support for Mesos at one time. It was about engineering and support focus. It wasn't about killing innovation. It's about focus. This is certainly my personal opinion of our business decision but it is shared by others I work with.
I agree that when you're working within the Docker Swarm type community there was probably little incentive to to anything based on RHs blog post.
I'm very sorry to hear that Dan Walsh was the butt of many jokes at Docker. Dan Walsh did so much for the Docker community at the start - SELinux work being just one area of his many important contributions to making Docker successful.
We removed it because we have decided to support one OCI based container toolset in RHEL. Just like we switched from our home grown open source cartridge approach and dropped it to Dockers homegrown based approach in RHEL and OpenShift we had to do the same. We did this with our Gear versus Kubernetes versus Swarm versus Mesos approach. All of these are really good technologies. I myself advocated some support for Mesos at one time. It was about engineering and support focus. It wasn't about killing innovation. It's about focus. This is certainly my personal opinion of our business decision but it is shared by others I work with.