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by yrro 1571 days ago
Security boundaries in Linux are UIDs/GIDs, capabilities, SELinux domains, and others. These can be applied to processes regardless of whether the process runs in a container.

i.e. root inside a container is root on the host; the container itself doesn't help that. But other security features, that are applied to the processes within the container when the container is created, might.