Kernel: Virtuozzo, IBM, Google, Eric Biederman and others
Userspace: Daniel Lezcano, Serge Hallyn, Stéphane Graber and others
Initial release
August 6, 2008; 15 years ago (2008-08-06)[1]
Stable release
6.0.0[2]
/ 3 April 2024; 34 days ago (3 April 2024)
Repository
github.com/lxc
Written in
C, Shell
Operating system
Linux
Platform
x86, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC, Itanium, ARM
Type
OS-level virtualization
License
GNU LGPL v.2.1 (some components under GNU GPL v2 and BSD)
Website
linuxcontainers.org
Linux Containers (LXC) is an operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a control host using a single Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel provides the cgroups functionality that allows limitation and prioritization of resources (CPU, memory, block I/O, network, etc.) without the need for starting any virtual machines, and also the namespace isolation functionality that allows complete isolation of an application's view of the operating environment, including process trees, networking, user IDs and mounted file systems.[3]
LXC combines the kernel's cgroups and support for isolated namespaces to provide an isolated environment for applications.[4] Early versions of Docker used LXC as the container execution driver,[4] though LXC was made optional in v0.9 and support was dropped in Docker v1.10.[5][6]
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^Rami Rosen (May 2013). "Resource management: Linux kernel namespaces and cgroups" (PDF). CS. UCSB. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
^ abKenlon, Seth (2020-01-30). "Exploring simple Linux containers with lxc". Red Hat. IBM. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
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