How the docker container creation process works (from docker run to runc)

Over the past few months I’ve been investing a good bit of personal time studying how Linux containers work. Specifically, what does docker run actually do. In this post I’m going to walk through what I’ve observed and try to demystify how all the pieces fit togther. To start our adventure I’m going to create an alpine container with docker run: $ docker run -i -t --name alpine alpine ash