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Container Security: Why Bother?
Are containers secure? Probably not. But knowing each approach’s strengths and risks—and available options—could help ease adoption. Such a decision requires two primary considerations: Containers do not provide the same level of ...
Linux Containers: Comparing LXC and Docker
As industry moves beyond the virtual machine (VM) consolidation paradigm, several types of containers have become prominent. Two flavors in particular currently enjoy the lion’s share of deployments on the Linux operating ...
Canonical Targets New Container Workloads with LXC and LXD 2.0 Release
LXC and LXD — Canonical‘s answer (sort of) to CoreOS and Docker — are finally out in stable form. Are they ready to make their mark on the open source container ecosystem? ...
CGmanager: Undergirding LXD
The third LXD / LXC technology in this series is CGmanager, which is the final undergirding technology, the one that enables secure cgroup (control group) management for Linux containers. CGmanager is necessary ...
LXD, the Hypervisor for LXC Containers, Part One
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu and is neck-deep in providing Linux Containers, i.e., LXC and its component technologies, now including LXD (the LXC container hypervisor), CGmanager (for cgroups) and LXCFS (a ...
Containers: Passing fad or tech nirvana?
Linux containers are hot right now in software development. But are they just a passing fad or something more substantial? I’m reminded of a childhood experience that might help make the answer ...
