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Open Source Version of Google’s Container Stack
- SEJeff 13y agoSounds like a poor man's docker? [1] http://docker.io http://docker.io
- shykes 13y agoThis actually looks like a nice potential execution backend for docker. Currently docker shells out to lxc-start with a generated configuration - I would rather bind to a small low-level library which just handles the namespacing and cgroup work. It looks like lmctfy could be that library.
- oscargrouch 13y agoAlso this can be very handy as a C library, so you can embed it: https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/include/lmctfy.h https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/include/lmctfy.... People naturally compare this to Docker but given that Google is a heavy-weight in that domain, and things like App Engine are here for ages.. this probably will be very a good container library and tool with time..
- jaytaylor 13y agoCan anyone comment on how this compares to LXC? Why should we prefer or use this when LXC already exists and is stable?
- jameskilton 13y agoFrom the readme: >> lmctfy runs best when it owns all containers in a machine so it is not recommended to run lmctfy alongside LXC or another container system (although given some configuration, it can be made to work). At first I thought this might be Docker-esque, but it's a completely different stack solving the same problems.
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