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Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones

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What it is

Bryan Cantrill's Papers We Love talk on FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones, tracing how OS-level virtualization grew out of chroot and the limits of the traditional UNIX security model.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended repeatedly as the best account of container history and how Zones built on and went beyond Jails.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Bryan Cantrill has a wonderful talk about exactly this in Illumos that I recommend at every opportunity”

    Cantrill talk on jails, zones and OS virtualization

    ketralnis, 2016-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows”

  2. “I highly recommend this talk, talking about Jails and Zones.”

    Talk on how Zones built on and went beyond Jails

    panick21_, 2024-07 · Strong recommendation · in “"Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)”

  3. “this rather amusing talk by B. Cantrill discusses the history”

    Amusing Cantrill talk on the history of containers

    eternalban, 2017-01 · Recommendation · in “Memory Deduplication: The Curse that Keeps on Giving [video]”

  4. “Bryan Cantrill has a nice talk which starts with a bit of history on containers”

    Talk starting with history of chroot, jails and zones

    jsiepkes, 2017-03 · Recommendation · in “Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD [pdf]”

  5. “This talk by Bryan Cantrill on the history of OS-level virtualization is great.”

    Great talk on history of OS-level virtualization

    kohtatsu, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “Gocker: Docker implemented in 1.3k lines of Go”

  6. “recommended talk about those topics”

    Talk on FreeBSD jails and Solaris zones

    yakubin, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “Sun: The Network Is the Computer”

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Topics: jails, solaris zones, containers, unix security, bryan cantrill

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