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docker and lxd are competing projects. Docker does not use lxd to launch containers. lxd was written by the lead dev (at canonical) of lxc which was not as polished as docker but sort of kind of did the same thing (ran better chroots)

They both use Linux kernel features such as control groups and namespaces. When put together this is referred to as a container but the kernel has zero concept of “a container”.






Docker started using an LXC driver to run workloads, but it was deprecated 10 years ago. No LXC remaining there :P

Cool but lxd is still a competitor to docker. I’ve read the move code for some work reasons. No lxc, as you said :)



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