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Exploring containers

Exploring containers - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Tips

Exploring containers

- [Instructor] Like virtualization, containers allow us to separate running software into a protected area, into a protected area isolated from other things running on a system. But unlike virtualization, containers use containers use the host's kernel the host's kernel, rather than putting rather than booting a full operating system a full operating system, with its own kernel, with its own kernel inside the protected space. inside the protected space. This makes them more space efficient but limits them to running the same operating system as the host, generally speaking. You can put a Windows container on a Linux host You can put a Windows container on a Linux host but you can use nearly any flavor of Linux inside a container on Linux host. To set up a container, we give it a root file system To set up a container, we give it a root file system which generally comes from a distro designed to run in a container. Distros for containers, generally, are pared down and secured more than…

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