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Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018

321K views · Jun 29, 2018 · 42:54 · 6 HN recommenders · 7 mentions · discussed 2018–2025

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN considers it one of the best talks for understanding how containers work from the ground up.

“Probably one of the most enlightening presentations I've seen in recent years, full-stop.”HN comment, 2022

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Strongly recommendssmoldesuMay 2022

“Probably one of the most enlightening presentations I've seen in recent years, full-stop.”

Enlightening talk on containers from scratch

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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] this video

in “Ask HN: Best educational courses/MOOCs/videos/blogs/books taught by a Female?” · view on HN
RecommendskomuWOct 2018

“Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice”

Building containers from scratch, in a list of best talks

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1. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens link 2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens link 3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice this video 4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim Holt, Lawrence Krauss, Charles Seife, Eve Silverstein. Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson link 5. 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? - Panelists: David Chalmers, Zohreh Davoudi, James Gates, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson link 6. Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley link 7. Concurrency Is Not Parallelism - Rob Pike link

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Recommendssascha_slFeb 2020

“Liz Rice has done some awesome on-stage live coding, including a very small container runtime in go.”

Live-coded tiny container runtime in Go

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Liz Rice has done some awesome on-stage live coding, including a very small container runtime in go. this video

in “Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)” · view on HN
RecommendspdpiMar 2022

“Liz Rice gave a pretty good prsentation on this same topic in 2018”

Video presentation of building containers

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This will be a fun read, thanks! If you'd prefer to see the same ideas in video form, Liz Rice gave a pretty good prsentation on this same topic in 2018: this video

in “Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)” · view on HN
RecommendsashconnorJun 2024

“Big fan of the following talk that explains how containers work from the ground up.”

Explains how containers work from the ground up

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

in “Deep Diving into Docker and Containers: What It Is and How It Works” · view on HN
Recommendspss314Mar 2025

“I loved this hands-on presentation Containers From Scratch by Liz Rice”

Hands-on live-coded talk building a container runtime from scratch

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

in “Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch” · view on HN
Cites itjasodeJan 2022

“these tutorials explain the verb (runtime) but not noun (artifacts of image file)”

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>I wish there were a tool that could just record everything [...] if you "know" everything, then notes serve no purpose. I guess the completeness of your proposed "auto-memorize-everything" solution depends on what style of notes a person writes. A lot of my notes are annotations or personal commentary that don't exist in the sources of the url text or video. Here's an example of that type of notes I often take... E.g. I found some links that explain how one can grok "Docker" by going through the learning exercise of re-inventing it from basic os features with homemade scripts. But I wrote my own personal notes (in "##")about the limitations of the explanations in the urls: ## these tutorials explain the verb (runtime) but not noun (artifacts of image file) link this video Because content cannot meta-analyze itself and enumerate all the ideas and concepts that are not embedded in its own text, it means a hypothetical indexing engine that converted the 2 links above to searchable data still would not retrieve the extra meta information I wrote. A lot of good notes are generated from your own brain. EDIT add to categorize different types of "notes" to aid discussion: (1) notes as memorization aid such as copying facts : a user writes a note that says "1 inch equals 25.4 millimeters" after seeing it on a webpage or something. So the "universal-record-and-index-everything" would help make these type of notes obsolete because one could just skip writing that note down and just reca

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