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| Developer(s) | |
|---|---|
| Initial release | August 6, 2008[1] |
| Stable release | 6.0.0[2] 
/ 3 April 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C, Shell |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | x86, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC, Itanium, ARM |
| Type | OS-level virtualization |
| License | GNU LGPL v.2.1 (some components under GNU GPL v2 and BSD) |
| Website | linuxcontainers |
Linux Containers (LXC) is an operating system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a control host using a single Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel provides the cgroups functionality that allows limitation and prioritization of resources (CPU, memory, block I/O, network, etc.) without the need for starting any virtual machines, and also the namespace isolation functionality that allows complete isolation of an application's view of the operating environment, including process trees, networking, user IDs and mounted file systems.[3]
LXC combines the kernel's cgroups and support for isolated namespaces to provide an isolated environment for applications.[4] Early versions of Docker used LXC as the container execution driver,[4] though LXC was made optional in v0.9 and support was dropped in Docker v1.10.[5][6]
- ^ "Downloads". Linux containers. Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
- ^ "Release v6.0.0". 3 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
- ^ Rami Rosen (May 2013). "Resource management: Linux kernel namespaces and cgroups" (PDF). CS. UCSB. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
- ^ a b Kenlon, Seth (2020-01-30). "Exploring simple Linux containers with lxc". Red Hat. IBM. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ^ "Docker 0.9: introducing execution drivers and libcontainer". Blog. Docker. 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
- ^ "1.10.0". Engine release notes. Docker. 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2020-10-06.