[lxc-users] LXC for real-time robotics

[Mark Paterson]

That's great information! Thanks :)

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:55 PM Justin <justinfb at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are using LXC in a medical device which has hard real time
> requirements. We use Yocto to build our embedded Linux distribution and
> have also used the RT_PREEMPT patch. We have had good results and the only
> issues we have seen were related to drivers that were fixed in upstream
> kernels. Once we backported, everything runs smoothly. I can't say if
> LXC/LXD is a good fit for you but it is a good fit for us as it has
> inherent properties that mitigate some of our cybersecurity risks.
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:39 PM Mark Paterson <markpaters at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Based on some success using LXC as a development environment on my
>> desktop, we're looking at using LXC containers to deploy software to our
>> robotics platform. The deployment platform will be Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04,
>> running on a custom kernel with the RT_PREEMPT patch applied, and probably
>> using btrfs as a backend due to the superior snapshot support. The
>> applications running in the container will need to meet (soft) real-time
>> requirements.
>>
>> I was wondering whether anyone has tried running real-time applications
>> in an LXC container, or if there is anything in LXC/LXD itself that would
>> suggest this is a bad fit.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mark Paterson
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