What is LXD?
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| dba477 Apr 16, 2016 5:46 PM EDT |
Quoting post above :- "In non-technical terms, LXD is a value-added extension of LXC. It provides features for creating and managing containers that are not available from LXC itsel and etc" Taking a look at "Linux Containers (LXD) as an Alternative to VirtualBox for WordPress Development" . Link - https://roots.io/linux-containers-lxd-as-an-alternative-to-v... What is LXD? By combining the speed and density of containers with the security of traditional virtual machines, Canonical’s LXD is the next?generation of container hypervisor for Linux. – http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd LXD relies on features to be found in the Linux Kernel, and is therefore specific to Linux based operating systems. LXD allows you to run any version of Linux inside a container. This means that you can run one distribution on the host machine, and as many other distributions and versions of distributions in containers. Containers run at close to bare metal speeds and are also much more efficient on resource usage. Ok. Posted link seems to be specific , here is another one Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor. This one has been written by one of core developers. https://www.stgraber.org/2015/04/21/lxd-getting-started/ |
| 750 Apr 17, 2016 4:41 PM EDT |
Seems more and more like Linux web development is turning into a beast all its own. Sadly it affects the rest of the Linux ecosystem, as those web devs bring their thinking deeper and deeper into the stack. As always, when all you know is a hammer, all your problems take on the appearance of nails... |
| mbaehrlxer Apr 18, 2016 3:20 PM EDT |
750: could you please elaborate on that?
how are web developers bringing their thinking deeper into the stack?
what thinking do they bring? and where does it get applied? greetings, eMBee. |
| 750 Apr 19, 2016 2:40 PM EDT |
To put it in simple terms "containerize everything!!!". You can see it with the likes of snappy, XDG-app, and similar projects to replace or augment package management with container derived techniques. |
| mbaehrlxer Apr 19, 2016 3:25 PM EDT |
hmm, i thought the idea of containerizing everything came from the need to compartmentalize applications for security reasons. on the face of it that strikes me as a problem worth addressing. i am not sure if the current solution is ideal, but i think it's a step in the right direction. greetings, eMBee. |
| 750 Apr 19, 2016 3:46 PM EDT |
You can do that without building the whole package management around it. What things like snappy will lead to is basically dll hell for Linux. |
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