Chrome Os Containers

Last fall quite a buzz stirred around the possibility of chromebooks running software applications via containers and google s pixelbook being the catalyst for this next evolution of chrome os.

Chrome os containers.

Frequently asked questions about the linux on chrome os container. Running the docker container. This is a heavily technical document. Glossary of terms related to running linux environments on chrome os.

The feature is officially called crostini inside google a way of running linux programs in secure containers so the overall security of chrome os one of the key selling points of chromebooks. Running custom containers under chrome os. For user friendly information see the keyword set up linux beta on your chromebook documentation. Hence chrome os primarily runs web applications.

Chrome os has never enabled users to set specific size limits for linux containers which means whatever the system determined to be the amount of space was the only option. Because of all the issues this caused some suggested on chromium that crostini offer the ability to resize containers. If you re interested in hacking on crostini itself take a look at the crostini developer guide. Finally we can create and run a docker container from the image.

Google doesn t offer builds of chromium os you can install yourself but neverware is a company that takes this open source code and creates neverware cloudready. Google announced the project in july 2009 conceiving it as an operating system in which both applications and user data reside in the cloud. Similarly gid is assigned in the same way as uids assignment except the special gid 20119 is allocated for container gid 1065 which is android s reserved gid this exception is because ext4 resgid only accepts 16 bit gid and hence the originally mapped gid 1065 655360 does not fit the. Last month i penned my thoughts on what the future of chrome os could look like and how devices like the pixelbook could play a big part in the implementation of containers on chromebooks.

Welcome to the containers project where we support running arbitrary code inside of vms in chrome os. Go ahead and give the following command a try. Low level technical documentation on running custom linux containers on chrome os including runtime features security their lifecycles and device support. Google s chrome os is built on an open source project named chromium os.