"There is no easy fix for this anti-pattern other than reading about the nature of containers, their building blocks, and their history (going all the way back to the venerable chroot)."

Basically learn the basics (cgroups, namespaces)

You should also study this https://github.com/p8952/bocker

> Basically learn the basics (cgroups, namespaces)

I think I have a basic grasp of those things, but still don't get how Docker uses them.

> You should also study this https://github.com/p8952/bocker

Cool! That's very usefl!