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However, after a bit more reading this all seems very limiting. In fact, it seems that Docker has great marketing that might have overshadowed LXC. Ubuntu in response To make things more confusing, Ubuntu has built out LXD which is in some ways a simpler front-end to LXC.

My next step is to try out LXD as it has the same core team from LXC is behind it and used it as an opportunity to improve the usability and commands. At the core this is all still LXC.

Bottom line, LXC is what I've been doing in Solaris Containers but for Linux.

References

LXC vs Docker - http://www.flockport.com/lxc-vs-docker/

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