Nithin Bhandary

Cloud and DevOps Engineer

Cloud engineer from India. Into homelabs, breaking things and learning along the way.

This website runs on my homelab in a tiny Docker container, built with Zola and Tailwind CSS and exposed through a Cloudflare Argo Tunnel.

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Multi-stage Docker builds

Learn how multi-stage Docker builds work and why they matter.

2026

What's it like being a container? Part 3

Cgroups, veth, iptables NAT and OverlayFS, the final pieces of how a container actually runs.

2026

What's it like being a container? Part 2

How Linux namespaces give containers their isolated identity, from hostnames to filesystem mounts.

2026

What's it like being a container? Part 1

A deep, kernel-level explanation of how Docker containers work on Linux.

2026

You can write to me at [email protected]. Email services are insecure, consider encrypting emails with my PGP Key if you're sending me something sensitive.

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