This is a collection of external articles regarding the CRIU project, sorted by date.
- 2026-07-22, Forensic Analysis of Container Snapshot Chains for Post-event Reconstruction
- 2026-07-09, Reverse-engineering NVIDIA's cuda-checkpoint for Faster Cold Starts
- 2026-06-29, Fast vLLM: cutting cold starts by 20x
- 2026-06-25, Elastic Resource Management for Heterogenous Container-Based Clouds
- 2026-06-01, NVIDIA Dynamo Snapshot: Fast Startup for Inference Workloads on Kubernetes
- 2026-04-27, Towards On-the-Fly Snapshot Memory Compression for Low-Latency Elastic Inference Serving Systems
- 2026-04-06, Cloudburst: 70x faster cold(ish) starts for SGLang
- 2026-02-24, GPU Checkpoint/Restore Made Fast and Lightweight
- 2026-01-21, Announcing the Checkpoint/Restore Working Group
- 2025-11-17, Engine-Agnostic Model Hot-Swapping for Cost-Effective LLM Inference
- 2025-09-16, Checkpointing and State Transfer for Industrial Controller Redundancy
- 2025-09-08, bpfCP: Efficient and Extensible Process Checkpointing via eBPF
- 2025-08-13, Software Availability Protection in Cyber-Physical Systems
- 2025-07-14, PhoenixOS: Concurrent OS-level GPU Checkpoint and Restore with Validated Speculation
- 2025-06-18, Improving Checkpoint/Restore Functionality in Kubernetes
- 2025-06-17, LWN.net: A parallel path for GPU restore in CRIU
- 2025-06-13, Kubernetes Scheduling with Checkpoint/Restore: Challenges and Open Problems
- 2025-06-12, MOSE: A Novel Orchestration Framework for Stateful Microservice Migration at the Edge
- 2025-05-14, Elastic Vertical Memory Management for Container-based Stateful Applications in Kubernetes
- 2025-05-02, Practice and Observation: Live Migration for MPI Workload
- 2025-04-28, GRANNY: Granular Management of Compute-Intensive Applications in the Cloud
- 2025-04-28, KubeSPT: Stateful Pod Teleportation for Service Resilience with Live Migration
- 2025-04-04, Optimizing Stateful Microservice Migration in Kubernetes with MS2M and Forensic Checkpointing
- 2025-03-30, CXLfork: Fast Remote Fork over CXL Fabrics
- 2025-02-23, CRIUgpu: Transparent Checkpointing of GPU-Accelerated Workloads
- 2025-02-05, A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Container Migration Strategies
- 2024-11-21, On-demand and Parallel Checkpoint/Restore for GPU Applications
- 2024-11-20, Snapipeline: Accelerating Snapshot Startup for FaaS Containers
- 2024-09-06, Live Migration of Multi-Container Kubernetes Pods in Multi-Cluster Serverless Edge Systems
- 2024-09-04, Towards Efficient End-to-End Encryption for Container Checkpointing Systems
- 2024-09-02, CSMD: Container state management for deployment in cloud data centers
- 2024-08-21, The State of Container Checkpointing with CRIU: A Multi-Case Experience Report
- 2024-08-04, Custom Page Fault Handling With eBPF
- 2024-08-03, Software-based Live Migration for Containerized RDMA
- 2024-07-30, Packet Buffering to Minimize Service Downtime and Packet Loss During Redundancy Switchover
- 2024-07-30, Don't, Stop, Drop, Pause: Forensics of CONtainer CheckPOINTs (ConPoint)
- 2024-07-25, MDB-KCP: persistence framework of in-memory database with CRIU-based container checkpoint in Kubernetes
- 2024-07-23, Dapper: A Lightweight and Extensible Framework for Live Program State Rewriting
- 2024-07-07, FastMig: Leveraging FastFreeze to Establish Robust Service Liquidity in Cloud 2.0
- 2024-07-02, Checkpointing CUDA Applications with CRIU
- 2024-06-19, Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks
- 2024-06-09, Demonstration of ElasticNotebook: Migrating Live Computational Notebook States
- 2024-05-30, In the Container Era: A Coup in Reliable Computing Over Unreliable Infrastructure
- 2024-05-20, ParallelGPUOS: A Concurrent OS-level GPU Checkpoint and Restore System using Validated Speculation
- 2024-05-09, Practicable live container migrations in high performance computing clouds: Diskless, iterative, and connection-persistent
- 2024-05-06, Workload-Aware Live Migratable Cloud Instance Detector
- 2024-05-06, Migration of Isolated Application Across Heterogeneous Edge Systems
- 2024-04-26, Fine-grained OS Control over High-performance Networking
- 2024-04-22, Just-In-Time Checkpointing: Low Cost Error Recovery from Deep Learning Training Failures
- 2024-04-22, Pronghorn: Effective Checkpoint Orchestration for Serverless Hot-Starts
- 2024-02-09, Forensic Analysis of Podman Container Towards Metasploit Backdoor Using Checkpointctl
- 2024-01-29, Prebaking runtime environments to improve the FaaS cold start latency
- 2023-11-27, DynaCut: A Framework for Dynamic and Adaptive Program Customization
- 2023-11-12, Checkpoint/Restart for CUDA Kernels
- 2023-11-10, Design, Modeling, and Implementation of Robust Migration of Stateful Edge Microservices
- 2023-10-23, Evicting for the greater good: The Case for Reactive Checkpointing in Serverless Computing
- 2023-10-01, ElasticNotebook: Enabling Live Migration for Computational Notebooks
- 2023-09-25, Transparent Fault Tolerance for Stateful Applications in Kubernetes with Checkpoint/Restore
- 2023-07-21, CRIU-RTX: Remote Thread eXecution using Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace
- 2023-07-10, No Provisioned Concurrency: Fast RDMA-codesigned Remote Fork for Serverless Computing
- 2023-07-06, Microservice Debugging with Checkpoint-Restart
- 2023-05-28, Processing-Aware Migration Model for Stateful Edge Microservices
- 2023-04-20, A Dynamic Checkpoint Interval Decision Algorithm for Live Migration-Based Drone-Recovery System
- 2023-03-10, Forensic Container Analysis
- 2023-01-31, HetMigrate: Secure and Efficient Cross-architecture Process Live Migration
- 2023-01-14, Async-fork: Mitigating Query Latency Spikes Incurred by the Fork-based Snapshot Mechanism from the OS Level
- 2023-01-10, A Container Pre-copy Migration Method Based on Dirty Page Prediction and Compression
- 2022-12-18, LDT: Lightweight Dirty Tracking of Memory Pages for x86 Systems
- 2022-11-13, Out of hypervisor (OoH): efficient dirty page tracking in userspace using hardware virtualization feature
- 2022-08-07, iContainer: Consecutive Checkpointing with Rapid Resilience for Immortal Container-based Services
- 2022-08-03, Demonstration of Containerized Central Unit Live Migration in 5G Radio Access Network
- 2022-07-11, RRC: Responsive Replicated Containers
- 2022-05-25, Good Shepherds Care For Their Cattle: Seamless Pod Migration in Geo-Distributed Kubernetes
- 2022-05-06, An architecture proposal for checkpoint/restore on stateful containers
- 2022-04-24, FitM: Binary-Only Coverage-Guided Fuzzing for Stateful Network Protocols
- 2022-03-01, Transparent, Cross-ISA Enclave Offloading
- 2022-02-25, Portkey: Hypervisor-Assisted Container Migration in Nested Cloud Environments
- 2022-02-16, Singularity: Planet-Scale, Preemptible and Elastic Scheduling of AI Workloads
- 2022-02-08, SNPSFuzzer: A Fast Greybox Fuzzer for Stateful Network Protocols using Snapshots
- 2021-12-17, Standard-compliant parallel SystemC simulation of loosely-timed transaction level models: From baremetal to Linux-based applications support
- 2021-07-14, MigrOS: Transparent Live-Migration Support for Containerised RDMA Applications
- 2021-07-06, Cricket: A virtualization layer for distributed execution of CUDA applications with checkpoint/restart support
- 2021-06-07, Extending the QUIC Protocol to Support Live Container Migration at the Edge
- 2021-04-21, On-demand-fork: A Microsecond Fork for Memory-intensive and Latency-sensitive Applications
- 2021-01-23, HyCoR: Fault-Tolerant Replicated Containers Based on Checkpoint and Replay
- 2020-12-11, Prebaking Functions to Warm the Serverless Cold Start
- 2020-07-14, Fault-Tolerant Containers Using NiLiCon
- 2020-07-08, Docker Container Deployment in Distributed Fog Infrastructures with Checkpoint/Restart
- 2020-04-30, Balancing efficiency and fairness in heterogeneous GPU clusters for deep learning
- 2020-03-17, Edge Computing -- the Case for Heterogeneous-ISA Container Migration
- 2019-10-03, Fast In-Memory CRIU for Docker Containers
- 2019-09-24, Using Container Migration for High Performance Computing (HPC) Workloads Resilience
- 2019-11-18, Optimizing Post-Copy Live Migration with System-Level Checkpoint Using Fabric-Attached Memory
- 2019-09-11, Performance Estimation of Container-Based Cloud-to-Fog Offloading
- 2019-07-16, FastContainer: A Homeostatic System Architecture High-speed Adapting Execution Environment Changes
- 2019-07-11, Exploring Potential for Non-Disruptive Vertical Auto Scaling and Resource Estimation in Kubernetes
- 2019-07, University of Twente: Increasing Availability of the AEPU by Improving the Update Process
- 2019-05-25, Replayable Execution Optimized for Page Sharing for a Managed Runtime Environment
- 2019-04-29, Binghamton University: mWarp: Accelerating Intra-Host Live Container Migration via Memory Warping
- 2019-04-10, CRIU and SELinux
- 2019-03-27, Container Migration in the Fog: A Performance Evaluation
- 2019-03-25, Checkpointing and Migration of IoT Edge Functions
- 2019-03-24, Future University Hakodate: Yet Another Container Migration on FreeBSD
- 2019-03-09, Provenance-based fault tolerance technique recommendation for cloud-based scientific workflows: a practical approach
- 2019-02-26, Georgia Institute of Technology / Peking University: Automating Patching of Vulnerable Open-Source Software Versions in Application Binaries
- 2019-01-30, University West: Evaluating Distributed MPI Checkpoint and Restore using Docker Containers and CRIU
- 2018-12, University of Lille: Flexible Framework for Elasticity in Cloud Computing
- 2018-12, Arizona State University: Concurrent Checkpointing for Embedded Real-Time Systems
- 2018-11-08, CRIU configuration files
- 2018-11-06, Using CRIU to upgrade a VPN server's kernel without dropping connections
- 2018-10-13, Linux Process Tree Reconstruction Using The Attributed Grammar-Based Tree Transformation Model
- 2018-10-10, Adding checkpoint/restore support to Podman
- 2018-10-08, Gandiva: Introspective Cluster Scheduling for Deep Learning
- 2018-09-15, Stateful Container Migration employing Checkpoint-based Restoration for Orchestrated Container Clusters
- 2018-09-07, Container Live Migration for Latency Critical Industrial Applications on Edge Computing
- 2018-08-15, University of Maryland: Fast and Service-preserving Recovery from Malware Infections Using CRIU
- 2018-07-31, Hot-starting software containers for STAR aligner
- 2018-06-28, University of Aberdeen: Efficient Live Migration of Linux Containers
- 2018-03-24, Compile CRIU on CentOS 6
- 2017-12-06, Optimizing live container migration in LXD
- 2017-10-12, Red Hat Blog: Container Migration Around The World
- 2017-07-19, Red Hat Blog: How can process snapshot/restore help save your day?
- 2017-06-29, University West, Sweden: Distributed Checkpointing with Docker Containers in High Performance Computing
- 2017-06-25, Autonomic Vertical Elasticity of Docker Containers with ELASTICDOCKER
- 2017-06-06, Voyager: Complete Container State Migration
- 2017-06-06, Selectel Blog: Managing Containers in runC
- 2016-12-16, University of Lisbon: ALMA – GC-assisted JVM Live Migration for Java Server Applications
- 2016-07-20, Red Hat KnowledgeBase: CRIU - Checkpoint/Restore in user space
- 2016-07-20, LWN.net: Quality in open source: testing CRIU
- 2016-06-22, Usenix: Instant OS Updates via Userspace Checkpoint-and-Restart
- 2016-05-04: Lazy Process Migration
- 2015-12-31, Use the CRIU Docker container of stop / resume to the challenge
- 2015-12-31, How Containers Will Change the Game Server Hosting Industry
- 2015-11-24, Improving Preemptive Scheduling with Application-Transparent Checkpointing in Shared Clusters
- 2015-09-21, Checkpoint and restore Docker container with CRIU
- 2015-09-21, Dolly Demo at LinuxCon: Rapid cloning of existing services with runC
- 2015-09-10, Time Traveling in Node.js Notebooks
- 2015-01-01, Containers: Why They’re in Your Future and What Has to Happen First
- 2015-07-01, How did the Quake demo from DockerCon Work?
- 2015-05-06, Live Migration in LXD Ubuntu Insignts
- 2015-04-22, TuxDiary Dump, debug, resume process with criu
- 2014-12-12, Symposium on Information and Communication Systems (SInCom 2014) Checkpoint/Restore in User-Space with Open MPI
- 2014-11-03, From Patches to Honey-Patches: Lightweight Attacker Misdirection, Deception, and Disinformation
- 2014-09-31, Parallels Surpasses One Million Deployed Virtual Containers
- 2014-08-01, ADMIN magazine: Save and Restore Linux Processes with CRIU
- 2014-02-15, OCCAM Reproduce: Efficient, Accurate and Reproducible Simulation of Multi-Threaded Workloads (slides)
- 2013-11-25, Phoronix: Checkpoint-Restore Hits v1.0: Freeze Your Linux Apps
- 2013-11-25, LWN: A note about 1.0
- 2013-10-29, LWN: Kernel summit report
- 2013-02-01, A blog post upon LCA-2013 talk.
- 2013-01-09, LWN: Checkpoint/restore and signals
- 2012-11-20, LWN: LCE: Checkpoint/restore in user space: are we there yet?
- 2012-07-24, OpenVZ blog: CRtools 0.1 released!
- 2012-05-01, LWN: TCP connection repair
- 2012-02-26, The International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) Pos (isgc 2012) 031 live process migration for load balancing and/or fault tolerance
- 2012-01-31, LWN: Preparing for user-space checkpoint/restore
- 2011-07-19, LWN: Checkpoint/restart (mostly) in user space
In Russian
- 13.05.2016, Habrahabr: Особенности тестирования технологии C/R в Linux
- 09.03.2016, Opennet: Выпуск CRIU 2.0, системы для сохранения и восстановления состояния процессов в Linux
- 18.12.2015, Opennet: CRIU, путь от вызывающей непонимание разработки до интеграции в Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 09.12.2015, Opennet: Выпуск CRIU 1.8, системы для сохранения и восстановления состояния процессов в Linux
- 09.09.2015, Opennet: Выпуск CRIU 1.7, системы для сохранения и восстановления состояния процессов в Linux
- 25.08.2015, Opennet: Проект OpenVZ анонсировал новый компонент для миграции Linux контейнеров - P.Haul
- 27.05.2015, Opennet: Статус интеграции проектов CRIU и Docker
- 25.11.2013, Opennet: Анонс выхода 1.0
- 28.04.2015, Типичный программист: Разработка ядра Linux — это общение в клубе по интересам
- 22.04.2013, Habrahabr: В преддверии очередного релиза CRIU
- 04.03.2013, IT-computer: Осваиваем систему заморозки процессов CRIU
- 28.09.2012, Opennet: CRIU 0.2 release
- 05.11.2013, Xakep: Осваиваем систему заморозки процессов CRIU
- 15.08.2013, Habrahabr: «Разработка ядра Linux — это общение в клубе по интересам»
- 01.10.2012, YaC 2012: больше, чем живая миграция для Linux контейнеров
- 24.07.2012, Habrahabr: CRIU — новый амбициозный проект для сохранения и восстановления состояния процессов
- 24.07.2012, Ru-OpenVZ blog: Вышел первый релиз CRtools, версия 0.1
- 24.07.2012, Opennet: Первый релиз CRtools, утилиты для заморозки и восстановления состояния процессов в Linux
- 24.07.2012, LOR: Вышел первый релиз CRtools, версия 0.1
- Копипаста о v0.1 "CRIU / CRtools 0.1 — создание контрольных точек Linux-приложений и восстановление с них": Rosinvest, NIXP PCNews