Series
This series goes through the ins and outs of how containers work on Linux.
Pitch By the end of this post, we will appreciate the idea of a container, within the Linux context. For most people, when you mention containers, the first thing that comes to mind is Docker. What if I told you that containers have nothing to do wit...
In our last post of the series #lci-series, we scratched the surface of what chroot does. It was great to get some feedback on how this lit some light bulbs. We can now agree on the definition that a container is a set of 1 or more processes isolated...
In our last post of the series #lci-series, we ran a container using chroot and a complete filesystem. We managed to isolate ls and bash within our container-intro directory. However, ps aux lists all the processes on the host environment because we ...
This post marks the fourth entry in the #lci-series. In our last post, we achieved namespace isolation for the processes running in our container. However, these processes have access to all the available physical resources. For instance, a long-runn...
At this point of our #lci-series, we have seen how to hack around and create containers. In this post, we will introduce some order and standardization. We aimed to demonstrate what goes on under the hood, just one abstraction layer below -- a scratc...
