Open Source Version of Google’s Container Stack

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20 pointsbillwashere5 comments

Can anyone comment on how this compares to LXC? Why should we prefer or use this when LXC already exists and is stable?

From the readme:

>> lmctfy runs best when it owns all containers in a machine so it is not recommended to run lmctfy alongside LXC or another container system (although given some configuration, it can be made to work).

At first I thought this might be Docker-esque, but it's a completely different stack solving the same problems.

Sounds like a poor man's docker?

[1] http://docker.io

This actually looks like a nice potential execution backend for docker. Currently docker shells out to lxc-start with a generated configuration - I would rather bind to a small low-level library which just handles the namespacing and cgroup work. It looks like lmctfy could be that library.

Also this can be very handy as a C library, so you can embed it:

https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/include/lmctfy....

People naturally compare this to Docker but given that Google is a heavy-weight in that domain, and things like App Engine are here for ages.. this probably will be very a good container library and tool with time..

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