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I use a chrooted environment for development daily, but I didn't know of more advanced containment tools. I was fooling around with lxc containers over the las

by Kurtz79 12y ago

I use a chrooted environment for development daily, but I didn't know of more advanced containment tools. I was fooling around with lxc containers over the last hour and they seem to me a much simpler concept to understand that the whole Docker ecosystem. Is Docker doing basically the same thing, but offering a more structured and controlled way of doing it ?

TallGuyShort 12y ago
Docker could be thought of as a wrapper to LXC, providing some additional management capabilities and tooling. It's often described as a "packaging" format for applications, and you then deploy these applications in containers. So the application is actually all of userspace that you're going to use bundled together, and then run on a sort of "partition" of a kernel.