Exploring simple Linux containers with lxc

If you ask sysadmins why they love Linux, one of the early answers you’ll get is flexibility. It seems that Linux tools tend to be built with just the right amount of effort having been expended for you, leaving just the right amount of work for you to do on your own. Because a sysadmin is frequently getting asked to solve problems that don’t already have an obvious solution, Linux makes for the ideal building block.

The lxc project is ideal for everyday container use. In fact, lxc itself was the foundation that Docker was built upon, and today there are plenty of platforms that leverage the work of lxc both directly and indirectly. Lxc, unlike other container solutions, doesn’t impose a specific daemon or toolchain. Lxc is so serious about fitting into your workflow that it provides Python3 bindings so you can build tooling around it.

If you learn about lxc, you can integrate generic Linux containers into your own system design to solve whatever problem you think a container can solve.

Containers have changed the way development and hosting works. They’ve made Linux the default choice for the cloud. You don’t have to change the way you work to harness their power, though. With lxc, you can create and develop containers the way that they work for you.

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