What Is a Container? The OS-Level Truth Most...

"You Keep Using That Word" Dispelling Container Misconceptions at the OS Level Before we write a single line of code, we need to kill the buzzword fog. What a Container Actually Is The marketing definition you have heard a hundred times: "a container is an executable unit of software with its dependencies bundled together." That is not wrong, but it tells you nothing useful about what is actually happening on the machine. Here is the OS-level truth: a container is a process (or a tree of process