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I don't think anyone in the container dev community thinks that containers means LXC only. Even back in 2013, docker's front end api was designed to support oth

by ffk 10y ago

I don't think anyone in the container dev community thinks that containers means LXC only. Even back in 2013, docker's front end api was designed to support other runtimes such as VMs and chroot. Perhaps this is a marketing story gone awry?

erikb 10y ago
Afaik even the docker noob tutorial already points out that it is not just LXC only.
- cyphar 10y ago
  Docker hasn't support LXC as a backend for at least a year.
  - erikb 10y ago
    You mean they replaced it? May also what I've read. Unsure.
    - cyphar 10y ago
      They've been using libcontainer and then moved to runC (which is effectively a standard-compliant wrapper around libcontainer) since before 1.0. LXC was only used in the early history of Docker, and it was pretty bad to be quite honest (it's better now but there's no chance Docker will switch back).