It's a Linux command that allows you to set the root directory of a new process. In our container use case, we just set the root directory to be where-ever the ...
chroot is a Linux syscall that changes the root directory of a process. It is widely believed that containers are implemented using chroot. This is wrong, but ...
The canonical way to provide a private filesystem is to use the chroot utility. This utility existed long before the advent of contemporary container ...
Chroot is one of a few tools that the OS/Kernel offer to create barriers of isolation that we call a container. Some of the others are network and PID ...