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However, after a bit more reading this all seems very limiting, but I this is by design. If forces both Ops and Developers into a repeatable automated approach to building servers and coding applications. This fundamentally shifts how we manage servers and application containers.... now we think in terms of orchestration of operating systems, containers and code as one singular unit.
In fact, it seems that Docker has great marketing that might have overshadowed LXC. To make things more confusingIn order compete, Ubuntu has built out LXD which is a simpler front-end to LXC.
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