[lxc-users] Running Docker inside LXD

[Luis Michael Ibarra]

Hi,

2015-11-30 13:06 GMT-05:00 Dilvan Moreira <dilvan at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com>
> wrote:
>
>> >    Does anybody knows the difference between the LXC technology Proxmox
>> > supports and LXD?
>>
>> Both, Proxmox VE and LXD, use LXC as base technology. Both provide a REST
>> API and a command line tool to manage LXC containers.
>>
>
>    Proxmox provides a GUI, high availability (restarting a LXC container,
> if its node fails), balancing node load, Ceph, etc. Does LXD provide any
> such things?
>    Now that I better understand the functionalities of LXC, it seems to me
> that LXD isn’t adding much. The features attributed to LXD, on its ubuntu
> page <http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/lxd>, come all from LXC (with the
> exception of a REST API). What is LXD adding to LXC?
>

LXD makes easy some things like:
- Live Migration
- Unprivileged containers by default
- Container configuration in a database over configuration files per
container.
- images over templates.

Greetings,



>
>
>>
>> LXD uses a (local) database to store configuration, while Proxmox VE
>> use simple config files stored on a distributed, replicated file system.
>>
>>
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