lizrice/containers-from-scratch resource
Writing a container in a few lines of Go code, as seen at DockerCon 2017 and on O'Reilly Safari observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
74/100
- Activity 92
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3424
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 51
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2040 stars · 339 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A small educational Go codebase demonstrating how to build a minimal container from scratch using Linux namespaces and cgroups, presented at DockerCon 2017 and on O'Reilly Safari. It is a teaching artifact rather than production software, requiring root permissions and Linux-only syscalls.
Use cases
- learn how containers work internally
- understand Linux namespaces and cgroups
- write a minimal container runtime in Go
- prepare for container security learning
- teach container internals in a workshop
When to choose
- you want a hands-on, minimal example of container internals
- you are learning Go systems programming with syscalls
- you need material for a talk or tutorial on how containers work
When to avoid
- you need a production-grade container runtime
- you need rootless containers out of the box
- you target non-Linux platforms
Facets
learning-resource · maturity maintenance
developer-tools container-runtime developer-tools operating-systems tutorials go containers-from-scratch namespaces cgroups educational-demo live-coding dockercon containers linux
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/lizrice/containers-from-scratch · fetched 2026-08-28 · 384e285b5133
- homepage: http://lizrice.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · e11f4cd7bf30
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| lizrice/containers-from-scratch | main | 74 |
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