From 8e5f15bedc5e7ac0785e289949fe304e95b8b260 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dietmar Maurer Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 10:49:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] improve lxc/pct faqs --- pve-faq.adoc | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/pve-faq.adoc b/pve-faq.adoc index 8270909..c412b05 100644 --- a/pve-faq.adoc +++ b/pve-faq.adoc @@ -89,27 +89,31 @@ recommended. LXC vs LXD vs Proxmox Containers vs Docker:: LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment -features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily -create and manage system containers. +features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users +easily create and manage system containers. LXC, as well as the former +OpenVZ, aims at *system virtualization*, i.e. allows you to run a +complete OS inside a container, where you log in as ssh, add users, +run apache, etc... + -LXD is building on top of LXC to provide a new, better user experience. Under -the hood, LXD uses LXC through liblxc and its Go binding to create and manage -the containers. It's basically an alternative to LXC's tools and distribution -template system with the added features that come from being controllable over -the network. +LXD is building on top of LXC to provide a new, better user +experience. Under the hood, LXD uses LXC through 'liblxc' and its Go +binding to create and manage the containers. It's basically an +alternative to LXC's tools and distribution template system with the +added features that come from being controllable over the network. + -LXC, as well as the former OpenVZ, aims at *system virtualization*, ie -allows you to run a complete OS inside a container, where you log in as ssh, -add users, run apache, etc... -+ -Proxmox VE aims at system virtualization, and thus uses LXC as the basis of its -own container offer. LXC provides countless options, and it would be too -difficult to use LXC tools directly. Instead, we provide a small wrapper called -`pct`, the "Proxmox Container Toolkit", using LXC as a low-level library. +Proxmox Containers also aims at *system virtualization*, and thus uses +LXC as the basis of its own container offer. The Proxmox Container +Toolkit is called 'pct', and is tightly coupled with {pve}. That means +that it is aware of the cluster setup, and it can use the same network +and storage resources as fully virtualized VMs. You can even use the +{pve} firewall, create and restore backups, or manage containers using +the HA framework. Everything can be controlled over the network using +the {pve} API. + Docker aims at running a *single* application running in a contained environment. Hence you're managing a docker instance from the host with the -docker toolkit. +docker toolkit. It is not recommended to run docker directly on your +{pve} host. + NOTE: You can however perfectly install and use docker inside a Proxmox Qemu VM, and thus getting the benefit of software containerization with the very -- 2.39.2