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Emilua is an execution engine. As a runtime for your Lua programs

, it’ll orchestrate concurrent systems by providing proper primitives you can build upon. Emilua is not a framework.

Emilua offers you a fully-featured programming language and VM — that’s Lua — to script the setup phases inside the containerized process. However Emilua can still offer a few goodies here such as attaching to an existing jail using a clean OS-level process to perform container-side administrative tasks not specified by binaries found on the container image. If you have no needs for customizing the container setup phases, then Emilua doesn’t bring any advantages over other tools — bubblewrap, nsjail, etc — and you’re already well served with the existing market solutions.

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