Hawker is a small container engine designed to teach students the concepts behind containers. It implements a reasonable subset of functionality that one might find in Docker or LXC such that students get an idea of how the machinery underlying containers work.
Note that Hawker is Linux-specific.
This program was originally created in the Fall of 2018 to serve as a student project for the creator's class on virtual machines at Illinois Institute of Technology. The goal here was to provide enough of a playground in C for students to get a feel for how commodity tools like LXC and Docker work
You simply must run the setup script:
sudo ./setup.sh
Note that this script will ask for your sudo password.
Hawker must be run as root so that it can use mknod() when creating
containers. The author claims that this is not unreasonable as even with
Docker, the Docker daemon is running as root (your user must be added to
a privileged group to use the client). For example, to run a shell within
a test image:
sudo ./hawker test sh
Hawker is currently maintained by Kyle C. Hale [email protected]
TBD