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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 19.x - Second Edition
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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 19.x - Second Edition

by Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker
March 2020
Beginner
592 pages
14h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Namespaces

Linux namespaces had been around for years before they were leveraged by Docker for their containers. A namespace is an abstraction of global resources such as filesystems, network access, and process trees (also named PID namespaces) or the system group IDs and user IDs. A Linux system is initialized with a single instance of each namespace type. After initialization, additional namespaces can be created or joined.

The Linux namespaces originated in 2002 in the 2.4.19 kernel. In kernel version 3.8, user namespaces were introduced and with it, namespaces were ready to be used by containers.

If we wrap a running process, say, in a filesystem namespace, then this process has the illusion that it owns its own complete filesystem. ...

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