Demystifying Containers – Part I: Kernel Space

This series of blog posts and corresponding talks aims to provide you with a pragmatic view on containers from a historic perspective. Together we will discover modern cloud architectures layer by layer, which means we will start at the Linux Kernel level and end up at writing our own secure cloud native applications. Simple examples paired with the historic background will guide you from the beginning with a minimal Linux environment up to crafting secure containers, which fit perfectly into todays’ and futures’ orchestration world.

In the end it should be much easier to understand how features within the Linux kernel, container tools, runtimes, software defined networks and orchestration software like Kubernetes are designed and how they work under the hood. This first blog post (and talk) is scoped to Linux kernel related topics, which will provide you with the necessary foundation to build up a deep understanding about containers. We will gain an insight about the history of UNIX, Linux and talk about solutions like chroot, namespaces and cgroups combined with hacking our own examples.

Besides this we will peel some containers to get a feeling about future topics we will talk about. If we are talking about containers nowadays, most people tend to think of the big blue whale or the white steering wheel on the blue background.

Source: cncf.io