What it is

A pod level OCI container runtime monitor.

Benefit 

The goal of this feature is to provide a container monitor in Rust. The scope of conmon-rs encompasses the scope of the c iteration of conmon, including daemonizing, holding open container standard streams, writing the exit code.

However, the goal of conmon-rs also extends past that of conmon, attempting to become a monitor for a full pod (or a group of containers). Instead of a container engine creating a conmon per container (as well as subsequent conmons per container exec), the engine will spawn a conmon-rs instance when a pod is created. That instance will listen over an UNIX domain socket for new requests to create containers, and exec processes within them.