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If you don't quite get the value of Docker, or as a system admin you are can't let go of your SSH console, start with LXC. After that you might (as I have) turn to like what Docker has to offer.

Install

For latest and greatest use the instructions on the Docker website. For easy of maintenance use Ubuntu native,

sudo apt-get install docker.io

Orchestration

Looking top down, the real power of Docker can only be realized with orchestration technologies. Here are the leading ones, I am just starting to look at,

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