Containers
~4 mins read
Although OS provides process isolation, containers provide more isolation and ease on top of that
See The What, Why and How of Containers – Annwan
Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018 is a great look under the hood for what really is a container
her code below
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package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
"os/exec"
"path/filepath"
"strconv"
"syscall"
)
// go run main.go run <cmd> <args>
func main() {
switch os.Args[1] {
case "run":
run()
case "child":
child()
default:
panic("help")
}
}
func run() {
fmt.Printf("Running %v \n", os.Args[2:])
cmd := exec.Command("/proc/self/exe", append([]string{"child"}, os.Args[2:]...)...)
cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{
Cloneflags: syscall.CLONE_NEWUTS | syscall.CLONE_NEWPID | syscall.CLONE_NEWNS,
Unshareflags: syscall.CLONE_NEWNS,
}
must(cmd.Run())
}
func child() {
fmt.Printf("Running %v \n", os.Args[2:])
cg()
cmd := exec.Command(os.Args[2], os.Args[3:]...)
cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
must(syscall.Sethostname([]byte("container")))
must(syscall.Chroot("/home/liz/ubuntufs"))
must(os.Chdir("/"))
must(syscall.Mount("proc", "proc", "proc", 0, ""))
must(syscall.Mount("thing", "mytemp", "tmpfs", 0, ""))
must(cmd.Run())
must(syscall.Unmount("proc", 0))
must(syscall.Unmount("thing", 0))
}
func cg() {
cgroups := "/sys/fs/cgroup/"
pids := filepath.Join(cgroups, "pids")
os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(pids, "liz"), 0755)
must(ioutil.WriteFile(filepath.Join(pids, "liz/pids.max"), []byte("20"), 0700))
// Removes the new cgroup in place after the container exits
must(ioutil.WriteFile(filepath.Join(pids, "liz/notify_on_release"), []byte("1"), 0700))
must(ioutil.WriteFile(filepath.Join(pids, "liz/cgroup.procs"), []byte(strconv.Itoa(os.Getpid())), 0700))
}
func must(err error) {
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}