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Top 4 Go rootless-container Projects
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singularity
Singularity has been renamed to Apptainer as part of us moving the project to the Linux Foundation. This repo has been persisted as a snapshot right before the changes.
Project mention: Rootless Docker in a Multi-User Environment – It's All About Context | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-26 -
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Project mention: Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-23
Yes, from the README:
> Bocker runs as root and among other things needs to make changes to your network interfaces, routing table, and firewall rules. I can make no guarantees that it won't trash your system.
Linux makes it quite hard to run "containers" as an unprivileged user. Not impossible! https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit is one approach and demonstrates much of the difficulty involved. Networking is perhaps the most problematic. Your choices are either setuid binaries (so basically less-root as opposed to root-less anymore) or usermode networking. slirp4netns is the state of the art here as far as I know, but not without security and performance tradeoffs.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Go rootless-containers discussion
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Our User Mode WireGuard Year
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Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
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`Docker-Swarm` VS. `Kubernetes`
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Index
What are some of the best open-source rootless-container projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | singularity | 2,542 |
| 2 | apptainer | 1,235 |
| 3 | rootlesskit | 1,047 |
| 4 | umoci | 773 |
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