Reply to post: Re: Container == process

2017 – the year of containers! It wasn't? Oops. Maybe next year

John Robson Silver badge

Re: Container == process

It's slightly more than that - it's a way to easily share and distribute that chroot directory with associated library dependencies.

It's a way to share config amongst the directories and to obfuscate the networking to the point where an epileptic spider dipped in ink would be considered coherent.

IIRC there is also a bit more memory protection than a plain chroot process has - but I might be wrong about that.

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