The first one was added to Linux in 2008 (Linux kernel 2.6), but they became more widely used only in Linux kernel 3.6, when work on the most complex of them all the users namespace was completed. There are six types of namespaces available up to kernel 4.0. Namespaces are features available in Linux to isolate processes in different system resource aspects. But in Linux, this concept was started with chroot and has been possible because namespaces are present in the Linux kernel. For years, BSD has used the concept of jails, while Solaris has used zones. The idea of jailing is not new since it has been available in UNIX based BSD OSs. It has become trendy due to its extensive use by PaaS and SaaS providers.
A sandbox can help you to create a different environment from your base operating system. Sandboxing can be useful to systems administrators if they want to test their tasks without any damage and also to developers for testing their pieces of code.
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