Linux containers

Linux containers is a generic term for an implementation of operating system-level virtualization for the Linux operating system. Currently, a number of such implementations exist, and they are all based on the virtualization, isolation, and resource management mechanisms provided by the Linux kernel, notably Linux namespaces and cgroups.^[1] The term Linux containers may refer to one of the following technologies:

Docker, first released on 13 March 2013; 11 years ago (2013-03-13)
Linux-VServer
lmctfy, initially developed by Google and released on 13 October 2013; 10 years ago (2013-10-13) and not actively developed since 2015.
LXC (Linux Containers), first released on August 6, 2008; 15 years ago (2008-08-06)^[2]
LXD
OpenVZ
Rkt, developed by CoreOS Inc
Singularity
systemd-nspawn^[3]

References

↑ Rami, Rosen. "Namespaces and Cgroups, the basis of Linux Containers". http://www.netdevconf.org/1.1/proceedings/slides/rosen-namespaces-cgroups-lxc.pdf. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
↑ "LXC - Linux Containers". https://linuxcontainers.org/downloads/. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
↑ Poettering, Lennart. "systemd For Administrators, Part XXI". http://0pointer.net/blog/systemd-for-administrators-part-xxi.html. Retrieved 2 July 2016.

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[1] Rami, Rosen. "Namespaces and Cgroups, the basis of Linux Containers". http://www.netdevconf.org/1.1/proceedings/slides/rosen-namespaces-cgroups-lxc.pdf. Retrieved 18 August 2016.

[2] "LXC - Linux Containers". https://linuxcontainers.org/downloads/. Retrieved 2014-11-10.

[3] Poettering, Lennart. "systemd For Administrators, Part XXI". http://0pointer.net/blog/systemd-for-administrators-part-xxi.html. Retrieved 2 July 2016.

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