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Application Isolation With NGINX Unit One of the most recent developments in NGINX Unit’s feature set is the support for application isolation, introduced in version 1.11.0 and implemented via Linux namespaces. It was announced just a few weeks ago, and there’s a reason for that: the developer behind the feature, Tiago de Bem Natel de Moura, joined the NGINX Unit team only this summer. Let’s start with a brief recap of Linux namespaces: essentially, they are a kernel mechanism that enables a group of processes to share several types of system resources separately from the resources shared by other groups of processes. The kernel ensures that processes in a namespace access only the resources assigned to that namespace. Although processes in two different namespaces can share some resources, other resources are “invisible” to processes in the other namespace. The types of resources that [ more… ]