WTF is a container?

Re:WTF is a container? by dancek on Monday October 17, 2016 @03:51AM (#12723313)

Does LXC provide a way to automatically create new working instances (like a Dockerfile / docker-compose.yml)? I'm not quite grokking LXC in my first 10 minutes of reading...

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Re:WTF is a container? by gautamdivgi on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:57AM (#12724243)

I think you could create your own lxc template and then create new instances. The other way would be to just clone existing working instances with overlayfs.

Base lxc may be a bit of a pain. Look at lxd - I believe that makes things much much simpler.

Another thing about lxc is the unpriviledged container - which I think is great for security (not sure if docker provides this).

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Re:WTF is a container? by contingencies on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:50AM (#12725463)

man lxc.conf ... this is your dockerfile equivalent.

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