I’d like to comprehensively understand the run-time performance cost of a Docker container. I’ve found references to networking anecdotally being ~100µs slower.
I’ve also found references to the run-time cost being “negligible” and “close to zero” but I’d like to know more precisely what those costs are. Ideally I’d like to know what Docker is abstracting with a performance cost and things that are abstracted without a performance cost. Networking, CPU, memory, etc.
Furthermore, if there are abstraction costs, are there ways to get around the abstraction cost. For example, perhaps I can mount a disk directly vs. virtually in Docker.