Linux Containers (LXD) as an Alternative to VirtualBox for WordPress Development

Posted by dba477 on Apr 17, 2016 3:22 PM EDT
https://roots.io; By Rob Blake
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What is LXD? By combining the speed and density of containers with the security of traditional virtual machines, Canonical’s LXD is the next?generation of container hypervisor for Linux.

LXD relies on features to be found in the Linux Kernel, and is therefore specific to Linux based operating systems. LXD allows you to run any version of Linux inside a container. This means that you can run one distribution on the host machine, and as many other distributions and versions of distributions in containers. Containers run at close to bare metal speeds and are also much more efficient on resource usage.

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