Deep into Container — Build your own container with Golang

Hi guys, continuing with the series of Deep into Container, we already know that containers are built from Linux Namespaces and Cgroups, and to learn more deeply about it, we’re going to learn how to build your own container using Golang.

This article I referenced from Build Your Own Container Using Less than 100 Lines of Go by Julian Friedman and Building a container from scratch in Go by Liz Rice.

This is part four in the series Deep into Container:

1. Linux namespaces and Cgroups: What are containers made from?
2. Deep into Container Runtime.
3. How Kubernetes works with Container Runtime.
4. Deep into Container — Build your own container with Golang.

Building a Container

Create a file named container.go and write some simple code as follows.

If you are familiar with Docker then you know a command to run the container is docker run <container> <command>, for example: