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Sandboxing with minimal effort

Yorick Petersen describes adding sandboxing capabilities to the Inko programming language to limit runtime damage despite memory safety guarantees. He demonstrates using Podman quadlets to containerize services with read-only filesystems and minimal privileges, such as his shost static file server.

Background

Inko is a modern programming language focused on memory safety and simplicity. The author uses container-based sandboxing with Podman as a practical defense-in-depth strategy for deploying untrusted or potentially buggy code.

Source
Lobsters
Published
Sep 23, 2026 at 01:08 PM
Score
5.0 / 10