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lizrice/containers-from-scratch has 2,079 GitHub stars and 346 forks. GitHot measured 0 stars in 24 hours and +5 in 7 days. Last checked 2026-11-09 21:24 UTC. Last push 2026-07-13.

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Writing a container in a few lines of Go code, as seen at DockerCon 2017 and on O'Reilly Safari

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containers-from-scratch

Writing a container in a few lines of Go code, as seen at DockerCon 2017 and on O'Reilly Safari

You need root permissions for this version to work. Or you can adapt it to be a rootless container by as shown in these slides.

Note that the Go code uses some syscall definitions that are only available when building with GOOS=linux.

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