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Re:Docker Misconceptions by Kurtz79 on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @11:33AM (#7873111)
I use a chrooted environment for development daily, but I didn't know of more advanced containment tools.

I was fooling around with lxc containers over the last hour and they seem to me a much simpler concept to understand that the whole Docker ecosystem.

Is Docker doing basically the same thing, but offering a more structured and controlled way of doing it ?

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Re:Docker Misconceptions by TallGuyShort on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @12:54PM (#7873716)
Docker could be thought of as a wrapper to LXC, providing some additional management capabilities and tooling. It's often described as a "packaging" format for applications, and you then deploy these applications in containers. So the application is actually all of userspace that you're going to use bundled together, and then run on a sort of "partition" of a kernel.
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