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Is a docker container simply a process or is it more heavy weight than that? It certainly can be, so isn't this characterization that it's merely a "process" a
by marktangotango 9y ago
Is a docker container simply a process or is it more heavy weight than that? It certainly can be, so isn't this characterization that it's merely a "process" a bit disingenuous?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216618/what-do-the-processes-inside-a-docker-container-look-like https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216618/what-do-the-...
- icebraining 9y agoProcesses, not process, and I was talking in terms of security, but even in terms of performance, yes, it mostly is. There are some Docker features that can be more expensive (NAT and layered filesystem), but they are optional. A "Docker container" itself is just a group of processes to which the kernel applies a different policy than the default. I'm not sure what that link is supposed to show, can you be more clear?