Linux Containers - Building Blocks, Underpinnings and Motivations

I firmly believe Linux Containers (LXC) are poised to be the next Virtual Machine in our modern computing era. Consider:

• Linux Containers run at near bare metal speeds.
• LXC operations (start, stop, spawn) execute very quickly (seconds or milliseconds).
• Containers provide nearly the same agility as traditional VMs.
• They can be deployed with very little per container (VM) penalty.
• Linux Containers are lightweight -- they can virtualize a system (Operating System) or one or more applications.
• LXC can be realized with features provided by a modern Linux kernel.

More details on how containers are realized and some of their benefits can be found in my slide share presentation embedded below.

Realizing Linux Containers (LXC) from Boden Russell

I will be speaking about Linux Containers at the 2014 cloudexpo east conference in NYC -- I hope you can join me to talk LXC. Please contact me for free access to the conference.