Build Your Own Docker
Build a container runtime from scratch using Linux namespaces, cgroups, and overlayfs. You'll implement PID/mount/network namespace isolation, memory and CPU resource limits, layered image storage with copy-on-write, and the full container lifecycle. By the end you'll deeply understand what Docker, Podman, runc, and containerd actually do.
advanced19 lessons4 chapters19 graded exercisesPython
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What you’ll have built
Chapter by chapter. Every step is a graded exercise.
- Linux Namespaces
- cgroups & Resource Limits
- Filesystems & Images
- Container Lifecycle
Starts in Python — solve in the language you choose in the editor, same tests either way.
Curriculum
4 chapters, 19 lessons. Each lesson is a short read, one graded exercise, and a quiz.
- 1PID NamespaceRead · exercise · quiz
- 2Mount NamespaceRead · exercise · quiz
- 3Network NamespaceRead · exercise · quiz
- 4User NamespaceRead · exercise · quiz
- 5UTS NamespaceRead · exercise · quiz
- 6IPC NamespaceRead · exercise · quiz
- 7veth + Bridge + NATRead · exercise · quiz
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