Linux containers give an environment as close as possible as the one you would get from a VM but without the overhead that comes with running a separate kernel and simulating all the hardware. You can run your favorite Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, CentOS and more. LXD is lxc on steroids with strong security on the mind. LXD is not a rewrite of LXC. Under the hood, LXD uses LXC through liblxc and its Go binding. This tutorial shows how to setup and use LXD on CentOS Linux 7.x server.
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