THE VIDEO SHELF · os-level virtualization
Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones
Bryan Cantrill's Papers We Love talk on FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones, tracing how OS-level virtualization grew out of chroot and the limits of the traditional UNIX security model.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended repeatedly as the best account of container history and how Zones built on and went beyond Jails.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- PapersWeLove
- Topic
- os-level virtualization
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Bryan Cantrill has a wonderful talk about exactly this in Illumos that I recommend at every opportunity [VIDEO]
ketralnis on Hacker News · 2016-07
In Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for WindowsI highly recommend this talk, talking about Jails and Zones. Jails was first, but Zones took a lot of lessens from it and went further. [VIDEO]
panick21_ on Hacker News · 2024-07
In "Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)I am watching it now but he's talking about VMs ("KVM") and not "containers". As to why we're in this mess, this rather amusing talk by B. Cantrill discusses the history: [VIDEO] (Linux) Containers are not VMs: [LINK]
eternalban on Hacker News · 2017-01
In Memory Deduplication: The Curse that Keeps on Giving [video]
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