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Modern containers are a mix of cgroups, namespaces, pivot_root (like chroot but more appropriate for containers), and seccomp. Some implementations (e.g. firec
by efitz 4y ago
Modern containers are a mix of cgroups, namespaces, pivot_root (like chroot but more appropriate for containers), and seccomp.
Some implementations (e.g. firecracker-containerd) also use SELinux and CPU virtualization support.
"containers are just chroot" is an oversimplification to the point it's misleading.
- worthless-trash 4y agoI think that podman on rhel/fedora also 'uses selinux' to confine containers.