Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an accessible way to remove the magic from Docker and understand how containers work.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

GopherCon UK

Topic

linux containers internals

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2019

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From the original HN conversations

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• The core philosophy of "one app per container" has not changed. Strictly speaking, this will never change because containers - whether Docker, ACI, or OCI - are processes and not VMs . I recommend this accessible presentation on how to write a poor-mans Docker by …

• I started by watching [VIDEO] and reading [LINK] Also "man namespaces" on a linux machine will give some deeper documentation.

• Super late to this thread but the best video I've ever seen on how docker/containers work is this one: Jessica Frazelle's (docker core maintainer) talk on how to build containers in pure bash and C: [LINK] There's also this one, which is similar: [VIDEO]