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Hardware level isolation. Or: if you run your docker container as a vm instance; reduced overhead with only the kernel parts you need.

Typical docker is just a glorified chroot under a shared Linux kernel. With namespaces it asymptotically approach a bsd jail.

But the "easy" way to get some real isolation, is to use hw support for virtualization - but now you need a kernel (software that enable programs to talk via a fixed abstraction to hardware; drivers for real and emulated hw).

And you've reinvented 5% of the magic dust that IBM put into mainframes.




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