Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN considers it one of the best talks for understanding how containers work from the ground up.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 6 HN commenters across 6 different months, 2018 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec smoldesu · 2022-05 · on “Ask HN: Best educational courses/MOOCs/videos/blogs/books taught by a Female?”
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]
Recommends komuW · 2018-10 · on “Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?”
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. Co
Recommends sascha_sl · 2020-02 · on “Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)”
Liz Rice has done some awesome on-stage live coding, including a very small container runtime in go. [this video]
Recommends pdpi · 2022-03 · on “Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)”
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]
Recommends ashconnor · 2024-06 · on “Deep Diving into Docker and Containers: What It Is and How It Works”
Big fan of the following talk that explains how containers work from the ground up. Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018 - [this video]
Recommends pss314 · 2025-03 · on “Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch”
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] .
Cites jasode · 2022-01 · on “Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool”
>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 tutorial