devops

From VMs to LXC Containers to Docker Containers

Since I’ve joined SDAL, the lab has undergone a few infrastructure related changes, mainly how applications are run on the servers. From what I remember, we started using Virtual Box virtual machines, then moved to LXC Linux containers, and we are now rebuilding our entire infrastructure using Docker containers. How we got here The whole point of using these visualization and container technologies is so we did not want to install anything directly on the server.