I’m still fascinated by the approach, though. It seems to me that it sits somewhere between cgroups and virtual machines.
I do wonder what problem it solves, as I don’t think that it provides the same security guarantees that micro-VMs like firecracker do?
It’s the same approach as gVisor. Fairly decent isolation if your application can work on it, but your SOL if a scenario comes up that doesn’t work. VMs give you pretty much 100% Linux compatibility at the expense of density, optimal resource allocation and startup time. gVisor gives you excellent startup time, resource allocation and density at the expense of some app compat and performance at the extremes
Edit: at least with gvisor you get close to a decade of work on compat. gVisor can support some rootless containers scenarios and systemd these days.
I’d be very interested in it if it started to approach VM style isolation without needing KVM access (or qemu).
But I’m not sure if that is really possible.
The use case I’m thinking about is a sandbox exec isolation on an HPC cluster without Docker. I know singularity/apptainer exist, but I’m always looking for something that could make that environment more flexible. It is a tight security environment, so we are always limited in what we can do.
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I wonder if this can grow into a capability-based security tool.
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