LXC 1.0 released

by AhtiK • 12 years ago

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jonalmeida• 12 years ago

Should we expect Docker to go to 1.0 (production-ready) very soon then?

shykes3• 12 years ago

The release roadmaps of docker and lxc are completely decorelated. lxc reaching 1.0 doesn't mean much for docker - other than perhaps requiring working around yet another reverse-incompatible change.

What's more interesting is progress in the kernel on user namespaces, and stabilization of the cgroups api. That has nothing to do with the lxc userland scripts.

jyxent• 12 years ago

Do you know if the 3.14 kernel will have full support for user namespaces for unprivileged containers? On the LXC blog, they mention requiring 3.13 with some staging patches.

nwmcsween2• 12 years ago

lxc is sort of just a wrapper and is pretty broken (I found around 10 bugs before giving up) why build on lxc? a simple C library (not libvirt) would be much better.

alex4nder• 12 years ago

Thanks LXC maintainers! When Docker goes public, they'll send you each a free t-shirt.

nailer2• 12 years ago

Aren't a lot of the LXC code from Google? They already have heaps of T shirts.

kapilvt2• 12 years ago

A lot of the cgroup kernel code is from google among others (openvz also notable). The lxc userspace is primarily driven by canonical (and previously ibm).

nailer2• 12 years ago

Is the container / host security sorted? A month ago you could get a root shell via /sys.

FlyingAvatar• 12 years ago

It's improved, though still a root exploit in the kernel will almost certainly make possible root access to the host. For a lot of situations, this is an acceptable risk.

The real win in the present for containers is simplifying deployment and improving segmentation of services that already might run on the same machine.

LXC 1.0 released

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