Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library
by alinspired on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:58PM
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openvz doesn't seem to be known outside of hosting/hosters community, otherwise - it's quite a mature container engine
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Re:Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library
by shykes on Thursday October 03, 2013 @05:36PM
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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.