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by jchw 150 days ago
Docker is just Linux processes running directly on the host as all other processes do. There is no virtualization at all.

The major difference is that a typical process running under Docker or Podman:

- Is unshared from the mount, net, PID, etc. namespaces, so they have their own mount points, network interfaces, and PID numbers (i.e. they have their own PID 1.)

- Has a different root mount point.

- May have resource limits set with cgroups.

(And of course, those are all things you can also just do manually, like with `bwrap`.)

There is a bit more, but well, not much. A Docker process is just a Linux process.

So how does accessing the GPU work? Well sometimes there are some more advanced abstractions for the benefit of I presume stronger isolation, but generally you can just mount in the necessary device nodes and use the GPU directly, because it's a normal Linux process. This is generally what I do.