/tags/separation-anxiety/ Recent content in Separation Anxiety on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 06 Feb 2017 01:08:32 +0000 /2017/02/06/separation-anxiety-tutorial-isolating-system-linux-namespaces/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 01:08:32 +0000 /2017/02/06/separation-anxiety-tutorial-isolating-system-linux-namespaces/ <p>With the advent of tools like <a href="https://www.docker.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Docker</a>, <a href="https://linuxcontainers.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Linux Containers</a>, and others, it has become super easy to isolate Linux processes into their own little system environments. This makes it possible to run a whole range of applications on a single real Linux machine and ensure no two of them can interfere with each other, without having to resort to using virtual machines. These tools have been a huge boon to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PaaS</a> providers. But what exactly happens under the hood?</p>