Chapter 15. Containers
Containers have become a commonly used method for deploying services on Linux, providing security isolation, application startup times, resource controls, and ease of deployment. This chapter covers how to use BPF tools in container environments and covers some differences in tools and methods for analysis that are specific to containers.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the makeup of containers and their targets for tracing
Understand challenges with privileges, container IDs, and FaaS
Quantify CPU sharing between containers
Measure blk cgroup I/O throttling
Measure the performance of overlay FS
This chapter begins with the necessary background for container analysis, then describes BPF capabilities. Various BPF tools ...
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