Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp

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  1. windmill

    Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.

    If you are looking to self-host a scalable backend that runs arbitrary code in python/typescript/bash/go with sandboxing and nsjail like figma, nsjail is what we use as isolation layer at https://windmill.dev (Open-source alternative to Retool/Airplane)

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  3. nsjail

    A lightweight process isolation tool that utilizes Linux namespaces, cgroups, rlimits and seccomp-bpf syscall filters, leveraging the Kafel BPF language for enhanced security.

    So what's the difference between nsjail[1] and bubblewrap[2]?

    [1] https://github.com/google/nsjail

  4. bubblewrap

    Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

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