In the last few years, the use of containers has increased significantly. The concept of containers have been around for several years, but it was Docker’s easy-to-use command line that started to popularize containers among developer in 2013.
In this series, I am trying to demonstrate how containers work underneath and how I did develop the vessel.
What is vessel?
vessel is an educational-purpose project of mine that implements a tiny version of Docker to manage containers. It does not use either containerd or runc, it uses a set of Linux features to be able to create containers.
vessel is neither production-ready nor well-tested software. It’s just a simple project to learn more about containers.
Let’s start: reading about Docker!
I found it useful to take a look at Docker docs and gain insight into containers first, before starting to code.
Docker, regarding its documentation, takes advantage of several features of the Linux kernel…
