Visualize how Ubuntu 24.04 LTS system containers work
API & Orchestration
Waiting to start containers...
All containers share the same kernel • Hardware drivers • Memory management
Container processes run directly on the host kernel without virtualization overhead, achieving near bare-metal performance.
Namespaces make containers "believe" they own the system; Cgroups prevent any container from exhausting host resources.
Based on image layers, starting new containers takes milliseconds (CoW technology) and uses minimal extra disk space.