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Aleksei Aleinikov
Aleksei Aleinikov

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🐧 Run Linux containers without Docker? Yes, you can.

In 2025, you don’t need Docker or Podman to isolate your workloads.

You need… just the Linux kernel.
✅ Namespaces
✅ cgroups v2
✅ overlayFS
✅ pivot_root to ditch old roots
✅ No runtime, no magic — just raw power

⚙️ Full walkthrough: from setting up overlayFS to killing runaway memory with cgroups.

🧪 Build a container from scratch — and understand how it works.
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/run-isolated-linux-processes-without-docker-in-2025-ab4b661b8328

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