Containers under the Hood

Containers are Linux You probably already heard this expression, in today’s post we are going to desmitify container technologies by decomposing them part by part and describing which Linux technologies make containers possible. We can describe a container as an isolated process running on a host. In order to isolate the process the container runtimes leverage Linux kernel technologies such as: namespaces, chroots, cgroups, etc. plus security layers like SELinux....

Published on March 25, 2021 Β· Last updated on March 25, 2021 Β· 12 min Β· Mario