Canonical Launches LXD Open Source Virtualization Container

Posted by Mcusanelli on Nov 6, 2014 4:41 AM EDT
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Canonical is launching a new container-based virtualization hypervisor for its open source Ubuntu Linux operating system, called LXD. How will it get along with Docker?

As open source container-based virtualization explodes in popularity, perhaps it was only a matter of time before Canonical announced its own, homegrown virtualization container system to contend with Docker. That's what the company has now done with the launch of LXD for Ubuntu Linux.

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