Linux Containers
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.
Linux Containers is an umbrella open-source project providing a distro and vendor-neutral environment for developing Linux container and virtualization technologies. Its active projects include Incus (a container and VM manager), LXC (a low-level container runtime), LXCFS (a userspace filesystem for containers), IncusOS (an immutable OS for running Incus), and distrobuilder (an image building tool). The goal is to enable full Linux system containers and virtual machines with minimal overhead.
The project provides a suite of tools including LXC for low-level container runtimes, Incus for managing containers and VMs via QEMU and LXC, LXCFS for filesystem compatibility, and distrobuilder for building container images using declarative YAML definitions
Linux system administrators, developers, and datacenter operators working with containers and virtual machines
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- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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