Shipping Your Machine: Building a Container in 50 Lines of Code (Part 2)
The article discusses the second part of a series on building a container using Go. It addresses security flaws in the initial setup and introduces the chroot system call to enhance isolation. The author provides step-by-step instructions to create a root filesystem for the container, ensuring it cannot access the host machine's files.
- ▪The first part of the series established a basic container using Go and process forking.
- ▪The chroot system call is introduced to change the root directory for a process, enhancing security.
- ▪Instructions are provided to create a root filesystem using Docker, allowing the container to operate independently from the host.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 14816) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Yechiel Kalmenson Posted on May 26 Shipping Your Machine: Building a Container in 50 Lines of Code (Part 2) #go #containers #beginners #docker Containers From Scratch (2 Part Series) 1 Shipping Your Machine: Building a Container in 50 Lines of Code (Part 1) 2 Shipping Your Machine: Building a Container in 50 Lines of Code (Part 2) Welcome Back to the Jailhouse In Part 1 of this series, we built the foundation of our container using Go.
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