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Learning Windows Server Containers
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Learning Windows Server Containers

by Srikanth Machiraju
April 2017
Beginner
404 pages
9h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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A few key implementations of containers

Some of the key implementations of containers are as follows:

  • The word container has been around since 1982 with the introduction of chroot by Unix, which introduced process isolation. Chroot creates a virtual root directory for a process and its child processes, the process running under chroot cannot access anything outside the environment. Such modified environments are also called chroot jails.
  • In 2000, a new isolation mechanism for FreeBSD (a free Unix like OS) was introduced by R&D Associates, Inc.'s owner, Derrick T. Woolworth, it was named jails. Jails are isolated virtual instances of FreeBSD under a single kernel. Each jail has its own files, processes, users, and super accounts. Each jail ...
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