kazurin-775/picotin

A tiny Linux container host

picotin

A tiny Linux container host, with minimal supported features, written in Rust. (The name, "pico tin", is a synonym for "tiny container".)

Build and usage

# Build
cargo install --path=.

# Obtain Ubuntu rootfs
wget 'https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/focal/release/ubuntu-base-20.04.5-base-amd64.tar.gz'
sudo mkdir ubuntu
cd ubuntu
sudo tar xf '../ubuntu-base-20.04.5-base-amd64.tar.gz'

# Start the container!
sudo picotin new --root=.

Features

• Minimal support for { user, pid, ipc, mount, net } namespace isolation
• CPU and memory quota via cgroups
• Point-to-point container intercommunication via veth pair