Showing posts with label lxc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lxc. Show all posts

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Application Containers, System Containers

Canonical's Ubuntu 16.04 comes with LXD as "Linux container hypervisor". What is LXD and how does it differ from docker?

LXD is typically for system containers, Docker is usually an application container approach.

Friday, April 22, 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 GAes and Provides Containers

Today, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Server is available for s390x (and a few other minor platforms :-). It provides a few interesting infrastructure options: besides OpenStack and KVM, it offers system containers with LXC/LXD; for application containers, it comes with Docker. Some aspects of what this introduces will follow here...