I had just aced my mentor’s Docker exam, so of course I thought I understood containers.

I had said all the right words: namespaces, cgroups, images, layers, PID 1, Kubernetes Pods. Then I typed my first serious command and Linux reminded me that knowing the nouns is not the same thing as building the thing.

$ sudo unshare -p 1 test

unshare: failed to execute 1: No such file or directory

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