> The LXC team are trying to move the needle with LXD. It uses unprivileged containers by default (non root users can run containers, this is not capabilities drop) multi host management with a REST api so you can query the LXD daemon for container orchestration across hosts and live migration. These are big steps forward and they really do need the support of the community. They have been doing this for 7 years and is thanks to then containers exist.
I'm always surprised when people omit to point out that "the LXC team" is basically Canonical, the corporate sponsor behind Ubuntu (including the kernel bits).
People love to bash on the company, it'd be nice to acknowledge the achievements as well :)
Full disclaimer: I'm a Canonical employee. I hope that doesn't come out as a corporate shill, I genuinely love LXD.
I'm always surprised when people omit to point out that "the LXC team" is basically Canonical, the corporate sponsor behind Ubuntu (including the kernel bits).
Perhaps now, but historically you are very much incorrect. IBM funded it originally, and it was conceived and implemented (ie. as in they made it reach the "actually working and in-kernel" state) with the goal of segregating concurrently executing workloads on fat IBM-supplied mainframes.
I'm always surprised when people omit to point out that "the LXC team" is basically Canonical, the corporate sponsor behind Ubuntu (including the kernel bits).
People love to bash on the company, it'd be nice to acknowledge the achievements as well :)
Full disclaimer: I'm a Canonical employee. I hope that doesn't come out as a corporate shill, I genuinely love LXD.