box

📦 A command-line utility (non-daemon) for creating Linux containers, sandboxing a processes written in Go.

It basically is a tiny version of docker, it uses neither containerd nor runc. Only a set of the Linux features.

NOTE: This is a heavily modified fork (of was) of vessel and a reimplementation of the box utility from ulinux.

Features

box supports:

• Control Groups for resource restriction (CPU, Memory, Swap, PIDs)
• Namespace for global system resources isolation (Mount, UTS, Network, IPS, PID)
• Union File System for branches to be overlaid in a single coherent file system. (OverlayFS)
• Isolated Networking each contianer get its own networking and ip address automatically (IPAM)

Install

If you have a Go development environment setup with $GOPATH/bin/ in your $PATH the following will just work™ 😀

go get -u github.com/prologic/box

Otherwise you can build from source using git (You still need the Go compiler):

git clone https://github.com/prologic/box.git
cd box
make