[erchiang]

More intended as a fun intro to the basics than an opinion about container runtimes. I think understanding the common, underlying things provided by the kernel helps me work and evaluate higher level tools. E.g. when considering Docker vs LXC.

Like how a compiler class might have you write your own toy compiler for the sake of demonstration, I don't think anyone is advocating rolling your own runtime.

I'd love to see more articles about things like LXC. We where looking into using it at my last job but didn't have the bandwidth to do the proper exploration.