We are pleased to announce that the Containers and Checkpoint/Restore Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference!

After another successful Containers Microconference last year , there’s still a lot more work to be done. Last year we discussed the intersection between the new mount api and containers, various new vfs features including a strong and fruitful discussion about id shifting, several new security hardening aspects, and improvements when restarting syscalls during checkpoint/restore. Last year’s microconference topics led to quite a few patches that have since landed in the upstream kernel with others actively being discussed. This includes, various improvements to seccomp syscall interceptions, the implementation of a new process creation syscall, the implementation of pidfds, and the addition of time namespaces.

This year’s topics include:

• Next steps for uid/gid shifting for mounts and namespaces
• pidfds and their use for containers
• Handling of new mount APIs and unprivileged containers
• Solutions to transition from CgroupV1 to CgroupV2
• Use and limitations of the time namespace
• Hardware assisted isolation of processes/containers

Come join us and participate in the discussion with what holds “The Cloud” together.

We hope to see you there!

Christian, Mike, Stéphane