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The practical benefits of network namespaces
Lightweight Nets
Light Work
Container technologies like Docker and LXC make extensive use of namespaces. Few people, however, know that the lightweight isolation technology provided for some time by the Linux kernel enables interesting setups for admins without sky-high cloud stacks. As we hope we have demonstrated in this article, you can familiarize yourself with the necessary tools quite quickly.
Infos
- LXC: https://linuxcontainers.org
- Docker: http://www.docker.com
- "SDN Up Close" by Udo Seidel and Joe Casad, Linux Pro Magazine , issue 162, May 2014, pg. 14, http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2014/162/SDN-Up-Close
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