I too have been using LXC/LXD since before Docker but it's not the same thing. LXC is a system container. When you want a full system, instead of a VM, you c

I too have been using LXC/LXD since before Docker but it's not the same thing. LXC is a system container. When you want a full system, instead of a VM, you can use LXC, have ssh, give people accounts. It has the same issues as a VM or a regular server, it's easy to leave snowflakes on it, unless you're very disciplined and automate everything. Docker is an application container, it's not for hosting a user, but just an app. Easy to reproduce, you can share the images with other's or have them rebuild the image to run the app. So two very different things. When Docker first came out, I was very hesitant to use it, and thought it was very stupid to have just one container for one application. But as I thought about it and played with it, it made sense and I have come around. I still use both. You compared LXD to kubernetes, they are not comparable. k8s is a container OS, it's for orchestrating tons of containers, so you don't have to manually deploy and network them, and restart them.