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Building a Minimal, Rootless Container in Rust

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Location:

中目黒住区センター room206
nakameguro jumin center, room 206

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Agenda
• 30 minutes open chat
• 90 minutes interactive talk & questions
• 30 minutes open chat

Have you ever used Docker and wondered "what is actually going on?"

Containers often feel a bit mysterious - many of us use them daily without a clear understanding of what they actually are or how they work.

In this talk, we’ll demystify containers by building a minimal, rootless container in Rust in roughly 100 lines of code.

Along the way, we’ll:
・clarify what separates containers from virtual machines,
・explore how process isolation works on Linux
・understand why running containers without root privileges is a meaningful security improvement.

Using Rust and the nix crate, we’ll interact directly with Linux kernel primitives in a way that stays both low-level and readable. Rust’s compiler-enforced honesty - explicit error handling, visible unsafe boundaries, and typed system call interfaces - makes the mechanics of container isolation difficult to ignore.

Building a Minimal, Rootless Container in Rust

Primary Photo for Tokyo Rust

Hosted by

Tokyo Rust

In-Person

Address available to attendees

Community and help

Community links are available to active Members after joining and any required approval.

Contact organizers

Email from your verified Guild email address. Guild relays the conversation without displaying personal email addresses here.

Special thanks to our sponsor, TokyoDev! Thanks to them we'll have pizza again!

TokyoDev is a job board and community connecting international software developers with English-friendly tech jobs in Japan.

Location:

中目黒住区センター room206
nakameguro jumin center, room 206

Please give them a look at https://www.TokyoDev.com

Agenda
• 30 minutes open chat
• 90 minutes interactive talk & questions
• 30 minutes open chat

Have you ever used Docker and wondered "what is actually going on?"

Containers often feel a bit mysterious - many of us use them daily without a clear understanding of what they actually are or how they work.

In this talk, we’ll demystify containers by building a minimal, rootless container in Rust in roughly 100 lines of code.

Along the way, we’ll:
・clarify what separates containers from virtual machines,
・explore how process isolation works on Linux
・understand why running containers without root privileges is a meaningful security improvement.

Using Rust and the nix crate, we’ll interact directly with Linux kernel primitives in a way that stays both low-level and readable. Rust’s compiler-enforced honesty - explicit error handling, visible unsafe boundaries, and typed system call interfaces - makes the mechanics of container isolation difficult to ignore.