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by throwaway894345 1835 days ago
I’m a big proponent of containers, but in fairness to TFA, I don’t know how to configure namespaces, second, or cgroups and I don’t know what settings my orchestrator uses by default. If containers can be secure but we don’t enable those security features properly, then it’s a bit of a moot point. That said, I think (but am not sure) most of us understand enough not to trust containers for isolation between untrusted processes, so I don’t regard containers as lightweight VMs, but rather collocated processes with their own namespaces. When I run untrusted code, like jupyterhub, I make sure those untrusted containers get scheduled onto their own dedicated mode pool with single tenancy (at which point the container is more of a tooling/orchestration convenience than a resource optimization tool).