Zeus

Lightning Fast Containers

Description

Zeus is a container runtime built in Golang. The low-level runtime is runz.

Features

• Lightweight: Minimal overhead for container operations.

Issues

• No Networking: Containers cannot communicate with the outside world.
• UTS Namespace: Containers cannot change their hostname.
• IPC Namespace: Containers cannot communicate with each other.
• Issues found: Check TODOs in the code.

Installation

• Get inside filesystems directory and run the arch or ubuntu script after geting docker.
• Run the following to get the script to a workable state

./install.sh

• Then,to test the installation, run the following
• This tests resource isolation, PID namespace, and memory limits.
• Shows the completion of my minor

sudo cp ./testing/cpumemeater ./filesystems/arch/bin/   # Eats up CPU for testing
sudo cp ./testing/forker ./filesystems/arch/bin/        # Makes multiple child processes to fill up PID namespace and memory
sudo cp ./testing/leach ./filesystems/arch/bin/         # Eats up memory for testing