« Previous 1 2 3 4
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
« Previous 1 2 3 4
Buy this article as PDF
Express-Checkout as PDF
Price $2.95
(incl. VAT)
(incl. VAT)
Buy ADMIN Magazine
TABLET & SMARTPHONE APPS
US / Canada
UK / Australia
Related content
-
OCI containers with Podman
The Podman alternative to Docker is a daemonless container engine with a run time that executes on request in root or user mode. -
Endlessh and tc tarpits slow down attackers
Keep an attacker's connections open in an Endlessh "tarpit" or delay incoming connections with the more traditional rate-limiting approach of tc. -
LXC 1.0
LXC 1.0, released in early 2014, was the first stable version for managing Linux containers. We check out the lightweight container solution to see whether it is now ready for production. -
Run applications in a containerized sandbox with Firejail
Isolate popular applications in flexible, easy-to-set-up, and easy-to-take-down containers with Firejail. -
Operating system virtualization with OpenVZ
The virtualization technology market is currently concentrating on hypervisor-based systems, but hosting providers often use an alternative technology. Container-based solutions such as OpenVZ/Virtuozzo are the most efficient way to go if the guest and host systems are both Linux.