Docker Containers Aren't Virtual Machines: How Namespaces, cgroups, and OverlayFS Actually Work Under the Hood

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A visual, 10-minute deep dive into Docker and Linux container internals. Learn how namespaces isolate processes, how cgroups v2 throttle CPU and memory, how OverlayFS stacks image layers with Copy-on-Write, and what runc actually does when executing containers.

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