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

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.