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Writing a container in a few lines of Go code, as seen at DockerCon 2017 and on O'Reilly Safari

containers-from-scratch

Writing a container in a few lines of Go code, as seen at DockerCon 2017 and on O'Reilly Safari

You need root permissions for this version to work. Or you can adapt it to be a rootless container by as shown in these slides.

Note that the Go code uses some syscall definitions that are only available when building with GOOS=linux.