One container panics the host kernel and takes down forty neighbours. Where is the real isolation boundary, and what do you tighten first?

Namespaces partition resources, not trust. This question finds the people who know which sysctls are namespaced, which ones change every tenant at once, and when only a second kernel will do.

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