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Linux containers are implementations of operating system-level virtualization for the Linux operating system. Several implementations exist, all based on the virtualization, isolation, and resource management mechanisms provided by the Linux kernel, notably Linux namespaces and cgroups.[1] These include:
- 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, an alternative wrapper around LXC developed by Canonical[3]
- OpenVZ
- Rkt[4] (archived[5]), originally developed by CoreOS inc. and acquired[6] by Red Hat inc.
- Singularity
- systemd-nspawn[7]
- Podman[8]
- Charliecloud, a set of container tools used on HPC systems[9]
- Kata Containers MicroVM Platform [10]
- Bottlerocket is a Linux-based open-source operating system that is purpose-built by Amazon Web Services for running containers on virtual machines or bare metal hosts[11]
See also
- runC
- Snap package manager
References