2 ms·
OpenVZ is very unfairly left out of this history. It gave Linux Solaris-style containers in the mid-2000s, is still used in production in many ISPs and private
by api 11y ago
OpenVZ is very unfairly left out of this history. It gave Linux Solaris-style containers in the mid-2000s, is still used in production in many ISPs and private clouds, and is still security-wise superior to cgroups, LXC, and Docker. Its security is good enough for public VPS vendor multi-tenancy.
For whatever reason OpenVZ was never merged and we got cgroups instead. If things had gone differently we'd already have safe multi-tenant container hosting.
- rdl 11y agoWas it a NIH thing or licensing?
- api 11y agoNo idea, but it was and in some ways still is superior.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- zurn 11y agoHere's some history: http://openvz.livejournal.com/49158.html http://openvz.livejournal.com/49158.html For years OpenVZ/Virtuozzo people were happy to keep it as a separate patchset. Their business model seems to have been based on their custom software stack, of which OpenVZ was a part. Then suddenly the rest of the world started using cgroups on Linux.
- api 11y agoAhh... that's too bad. Their (and our) loss.