Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: From Theory to Practice: Running Containers with Podman
Chapter 1: Introduction to Container Technology
Technical requirements
Book conventions
What are containers?
Resource usage with cgroups
Running isolated processes
Isolating mounts
Container images to the rescue
Security considerations
Container engines and runtimes
Containers versus virtual machines
Why do I need a container?
Open source
Portability
DevOps facilitators
Cloud readiness
Infrastructure optimization
Microservices
Chroot and Unix v7
FreeBSD jails
Solaris Containers (also known as Solaris Zones)
Linux Containers (LXC)
Docker
rkt
OCI and CRI-O
Podman
Where are containers used today?
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 2: Comparing Podman and ...
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