VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
In a Container we have an isolated environment with namespace for each resource that a kernel provides. There are mainly six types of namespaces in a Container.
- UTS Namespace: UTS stands for Unix Timesharing System. In UTS namespace every container gets its own hostname and domain name.
- Mount Namespace: This namespace provides its own file system within a container. With this namespace we get root like / in the file system on which rest of the file structure is based.
- PID Namespace: This namespace contains all the processes that run within a Container. We can run ps command to see the processes that are running within a Docker container.
- IPC Namespace: IPC stands for Inter Process Communication. This namespace covers shared memory, semaphores, named pipes etc resources that are shared by processes. The items in this namespace do not cross the container boundary.
- User Namespace: This namespace contains the users and groups that are defined within a container.
- Network Namespace: With this namespace, container provides its own network resources like- ports, devices etc. With this namespace, Docker creates an independent network stack within each container.
