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LXC 1.0

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Conclusions

LXC 1.0 is a stable version that has been officially supported for five years. It can therefore be used for production systems without concerns. However, compared with Docker, no hype has evolved around LXC so far.

Maybe LXD [11], which is based on LXC, will change this in the future. Linux containers are certainly the fastest way to achieve virtualization and isolation in Linux. That is probably one reason Google has been using containers intensively in projects such as lmctfy [12] and Kubernetes [13] for years.

Infos

  1. Virtuozzo: https://openvz.org/Virtuozzo
  2. OpenVZ: https://openvz.org
  3. LXC: https://linuxcontainers.org
  4. Ubuntu Server 14.04: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04.0/
  5. LXC Web Panel: https://lxc-webpanel.github.io/index.html
  6. CGManager: https://linuxcontainers.org/cgmanager/introduction/
  7. CGroup values from LXC containers: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Cgroup_Werte_von_LXC_Linux_Containern
  8. CGroup documentation: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/
  9. Prebuilt container:https://jenkins.linuxcontainers.org
  10. LXC C API: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/documentation/
  11. "LXD Container Virtualization" by Martin Loschwitz, Linux Pro Magazine , issue 176, July 2015, pg. 30, http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2015/176/LXD-Container-Virtualization
  12. lmctfy (let me contain that for you): https://github.com/google/lmctfy
  13. Kubernetes: http://kubernetes.io

The Author

Christoph Mitasch works at Thomas Krenn AG and studied computer and media security at the Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences.

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