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How Containers Are Implemented

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Have you ever wondered what containers are and how they implemented?

Do you know that you can create one with nothing more than the Linux command line?

Here’s 9 great resources you can use to learn how they're implemented:

  1. Watch: Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from? By Jérôme Petazzoni.
  2. Watch: Containers From Scratch by Liz Rice
  3. Watch: Rootless Containers from Scratch by Liz Rice
  4. Code: Build your own Docker at CodeCrafters
  5. Do: Contaier Tutorials by Ivan Velichko
  6. Watch: Build your own Container Runtime with chroot by Adam Gordon Bell and another version of the same presentation.
  7. Watch: Building Containers From Scratch by Vinesh Agrawal
  8. Code: Linux namespace Golang experiments by Songrong Jiang
  9. Read: Building a Container in Go.

Coming soon, a build your own Docker Coding Challenge.