Linux Kernel Projects
Low level operating system technology is a topic that I have been getting very interested in since beginning college. Mark Burkley is a man who has had huge influence on my work since starting college. This interest of mine has been largely fostered by Mark (perhaps unbeknownst to himself) so I have to give him his flowers for being an inspiration to some of the following work.
mrun
September 2023 - Current
mrun (mike's runtime) is low-level OCI-compliant container runtime. I have been learning a lot about advanced Linux Kernel features such as namespaces and cgroups, virtual filesystems, virtual networking, seccomp, and all things process isolation. I'm also learning a lot about OCI (Open Container Initiative) specifications so that my project complies with industry standards for runtimes, images, etc.
os--char-dev--lkm
March 2024 - March 2024
This project was an end-of-block project in college for Operating Systems with Mark. This project was intended to be a demonstration of some of the topics covered; hence, it is a loadable kernel module with an accompanying user-space application. The project that I was a part of was a character device driver to get system information from kernel space and a multithreaded server to serve the data in JSON format to client processes – both written in C.
simple-ns-info
February 2024 - February 2024
A simple loadable kernel module to retrieve information about the namespaces on a host (an essential kernel feature in container technology). This can be inconvenient information to try and get from userspace, so the idea of this module is to make it a little more clean and convenient.