In this chapter, we touch upon an important aspect of Linux containers, called Linux namespaces. Namespaces allow the kernel to provide isolation by restricting the visibility of the kernel resources like mount points, network subsystems among processes scoped to different namespaces.
Today, containers are the de facto cloud software provisioning mechanism. Containers provide fast spin-up times and have less overhead than virtual machines. There are certain very specific reasons behind these features.
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