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Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences · 321K views · 2018-06-29 · 42:54

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Overview

Liz Rice live-codes a minimal container runtime in a few lines of Go at GOTO Amsterdam 2018. She explains namespaces, control groups and what a host knows about its containers.

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HN considers it one of the best talks for understanding how containers work from the ground up.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 6 months · HN mentions 2018–2025

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Operating systems & kernelsCloud, DevOps & reliabilityC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages
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smoldesu · 2022-05 · Strong recommendation

Indeed a bit of an odd request, but I'm partial to Liz Rice's "Containers from Scratch" talk. Probably one of the most enlightening presentations I've seen in recent years, full-stop. [0] [VIDEO]

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pss314 · 2025-03 · Recommendation

I loved this hands-on presentation Containers From Scratch by Liz Rice from few years ago [VIDEO] . Today, Linux containers in (less than) 100 lines of shell by Michael Kerrisk was published [LINK] .

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ashconnor · 2024-06 · Recommendation

Big fan of the following talk that explains how containers work from the ground up. Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018 - [VIDEO]

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