The Cnest Guide to Nest Containers

Bird Nest

Introduction

There are many use cases for OCI containers. This guide is for the use case of contained user environments for interactive shell sessions. Containers used in this way are referred to here as nest containers. Read What are nest containers? to learn more.

If you have any suggestions or additions for this guide to nest containers, start a discussion. If you have any issues or feedback for the cnest package, submit an issue or email Castedo.

The scripts in the cnest package have been developed, tested and used since early 2020. But there are other tools that can be used to create and use nest containers.

How-to Guides

The cnest package