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There Is No Container: What Actually Runs When You docker run

There is no container object in the Linux kernel. A container is a normal process with four restrictions applied to it. Once you see the four, every container problem you have ever hit, an escape, an OOM kill, a permission error, image bloat, becomes a question about one specific piece.

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