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Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by patrickg_zill on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:19PM (#6490402)
Has anyone used OpenVZ along with either ProxMox or the free openvz webpanel, as I have?

With all the noise about LXC based solutions I wonder if some wouldn't be just as happy with OpenVZ.

Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by alinspired on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:58PM (#6490675)
openvz doesn't seem to be known outside of hosting/hosters community, otherwise - it's quite a mature container engine
Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by shykes on Thursday October 03, 2013 @05:36PM (#6492293)
The ancestor of Docker at dotCloud ran on openvz. We moved to lxc in 2010 when it became usable.

I think of them as mostly interchangeable except for the shared hosting use case where openvz has a head start (more time for more eyeballs to audit and fix it).

Now the whole "openvz vs. lxc" distinction is pretty moot - linux has namespaces and cgroups. Everything else is a matter of choice of userland libraries and cli tools.

Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by geku on Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:04AM (#6488304)
Warden is similar to Docker, every container gets a read-only and a read-write filesystem assigned and Warden provides an API for creating and destroying containers.
Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by andypiper on Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:59AM (#6488549)
jambay provides more info on Warden in this other HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6488258
Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by geku on Thursday October 03, 2013 @09:11AM (#6488617)
thanks, much more accurate than my explanation.
Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by dallagi on Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:33AM (#6488419)
Ironically, Warden is also the name of the tool used in PC-BSD to manage FreeBSD Jails.

http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Warden%C2%AE

Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by _neil on Thursday October 03, 2013 @09:50AM (#6488842)
Probably obvious, but there's another ruby project named Warden as well (handles user authentication): https://github.com/hassox/warden

This project looks pretty cool, though.

Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library by dallagi on Thursday October 03, 2013 @05:32PM (#6492260)
Yeah, I thought it was funny mostly cause FreeBSD Jails and Docker have really a lot of things in common