Linux

What types of namespaces are there in Linux?

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Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • Process ID namespaces: these namespaces include independent set of process IDs
    • Mount namespaces: Isolation and control of mountpoints
    • Network namespaces: Isolates system networking resources such as routing table, interfaces, ARP table, etc.
    • UTS namespaces: Isolate host and domains
    • IPC namespaces: Isolates interprocess communications
    • User namespaces: Isolate user and group IDs
    • Time namespaces: Isolates time machine