All the other alternatives pain in the ass to use? Pardon me, but like op I found docker to be quite unusable, and LXC a breeze to use. Why go with the bad ab

All the other alternatives pain in the ass to use? Pardon me, but like op I found docker to be quite unusable, and LXC a breeze to use. Why go with the bad abstraction when you can have the real thing? Lxc has everything you want, with zero obscuring "magic" which you don't need anyway. LXC is definitely recommended. For max benefits you probably want to couple it with a fancy filesystem like btrfs, bit it's by no means required.