The goal is to offer a distro and vendor neutral environment for the development of Linux container technologies. Our focus is providing containers and virtual machines that run full Linux systems.

Jun 6, 2025 · The Linux Containers project (LXC) is an open source container platform that provides a set of tools, templates, libraries, and language bindings. LXC has a simple command line interface …

Jul 23, 2025 · A Linux container is a lightweight, portable, and self-sufficient unit that encapsulates an application and its dependencies, allowing it to run consistently across different computing …

Mar 15, 2022 · Linux containers are system containers that are similar to virtual machines in their behavior and manageability, without the usual VM overhead, and with the density and efficiency of …

Nov 14, 2025 · Linux containers are a form of operating system virtualization. They allow multiple isolated user - space instances to run on a single Linux kernel. Each container has its own file …

What are Linux containers? Linux® containers (LXCs) are a type of container based on the Linux operating system. They contain all the files necessary to run a specific process or processes across …

Linux containers, in short, contain applications in a way that keep them isolated from the host system that they run on. Containers allow a developer to package up an application with all of the parts it …