Rootless Docker sounds like the perfect answer to container security – no more root daemon, no more worry. If you look at how it actually works under the hood, the story is more nuanced than most teams realize. In this post, I walk through user namespaces and UID mapping, dig into why kernel developers have concerns about the attack surface, and explain what you’re actually giving up when you enable rootless and set seccomp=unconfined and apparmor=unconfined.

Ever wondered what’s really happening when Docker runs your containers? It turns out the daemon needs some serious privileges to do its job. I wrote this post to trace the path from the Docker daemon through the Unix socket, image builds, and BuildKit – showing you exactly where root access comes into play and why every step depends on it.

Ever wondered why Docker commands need sudo or docker group membership? The answer is baked into the Linux kernel itself. I wrote this post to peel back the curtain on what a container actually is. You’ll recreate container-style process isolation from scratch using standard command-line tools – building your own namespaces and cgroups by hand to see exactly what’s happening under the hood.