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In nutshell LXC is (blurb). If you are interested in Docker but  or Cloud, not yet ready to give up your ssh console start here. Learning LXC, you'll also really understand how Docker and Cloud works under the hoods.

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What about LXD? LXD is another higher level layer on top of LXC that is more orchestration friendly.

The key enablement for orchestration is remote API calls and higher level functions. LXD still uses LXC under the hoods.

At this time Aug 2016 LXD is still maturing so stick with using LXC

As of Oct 2016, LXD 2.0 is now available and hooking up with orchestration via Juju.

This tutorial was written before LXD was ready for production. I will write an LXD article too soon, however, LXC is still what powers LXD under the hoods, this is a worthwhile read.

Limitations

Kernel functionality list that cannot be used inside of a container,

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sudo apt-get install lxc

LXC is changing pretty fast, so have an idea of the version installed with your distribution,

Code Block
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lxc --version

Create Regular Privileged Container

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