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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? ...
Container Compatibility: Do Containers Need More Standardization?
Does the container ecosystem need more standards? If you look at the list of different container platforms and products — from Docker and CoreOS to LXD and Project Atomic — it can ...
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 ...