https://zdeep.fyi/Recent content on Zaheen Ahmed Deep ⋆˚࿔HugoenMon, 24 Nov 2025 02:00:00 -0500https://zdeep.fyi/post/2025-11-24-a-practical-introduction-to-containers-with-docker/Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:00:00 -0500https://zdeep.fyi/post/2025-11-24-a-practical-introduction-to-containers-with-docker/<h3 id="what-is-a-container" id=what-is-a-container> <span class="me-2">What is a Container?</span> <a href="#what-is-a-container" class="anchor text-muted"><i class="fas fa-hashtag"></i></a> </h3><p>A container is an <em>isolated</em> Linux process running on a Linux-based operating system. The keyword here is isolated. A container has its own hostname, root filesystem, process IDs, mount points, and user IDs independent of the host OS. Even though a container is only a Linux process, this isolation of attributes from the host OS makes a container appear as a separate operating system with its own files, users, and network interfaces.</p>https://zdeep.fyi/about/Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://zdeep.fyi/about/<p>I am a tinkerer, builder, <a href="https://paulgraham.com/hp.html">hacker</a>, but above all, a lover of everything computers.</p> <p>It all started as a kid poking around <code>C:\Windows\System32</code>, running <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickBASIC">QuickBASIC</a> code I didn&rsquo;t understand, copying Excel formulae from books I couldn&rsquo;t read. But computers were with me in all stages of life. I was writing web pages in dumbphones, learning jQuery from W3Schools, rooting Android, installing custom ROMs from <a href="https://xdaforums.com/c/custom-rom-central.2605/">XDA</a>, building robots with Arduino, dual booting Ubuntu with Windows.</p>https://zdeep.fyi/archives/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://zdeep.fyi/archives/