List of Linux containers

Linux containers are implementations of operating system-level virtualization for the Linux operating system. Several implementations exist, all based on the virtualization, isolation, and resource management mechanisms provided by the Linux kernel, notably Linux namespaces and cgroups.<ref>

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• Docker (software) | Docker, first released on
• Linux-VServer
• lmctfy, initially developed by Google and released on

  and not actively developed since 2015.

• LXC (Linux Containers), first released on

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• LXD<ref>

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• OpenVZ
• Rkt<ref>

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• Singularity (software) | Singularity
• systemd-nspawn<ref>

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• Podman<ref>Rootless containers with Podman and fuse-overlayfs, CERN Workshop, 2019-06-04</ref>
• Kata Containers (Software) | Kata Containers MicroVM Platform <https://katacontainers.io/>

• cgroups
• Linux namespaces
• runC
• Snappy (package manager) | Snap package manager

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