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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. 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. |
When an container is created (last updated with Ubuntu 16.04.1) it is tiny,
| Attribute | Size | Comment |
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| Disk Space | 337 MB | That's the entire operating system because it can mount shared core kernel files from the Host. Better yet as Read-Only |
| Memory | 12.96 MiB ~ 1.7 MB |
Limitations
Kernel functionality list that cannot be used inside of a container,
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