Hello, I am little confused about the future of Linux Containers in TrueNAS SCALE. On the main page of SCALE there is this statement: TrueNAS® SCALE is an Open Source Infrastructure solution. In addition to powerful scale-out storage capabilities, SCALE adds Linux Containers and VMs (KVM) so you…

Yea, this is mostly a semantics situation. By using Linux Containers we meant to distinguish between BSD and Linux, not LXC and Docker. LXC is not currently on the roadmap, right now the immediate effort is focused on native docker support coming into the product this fall.

[image] Foxtrot314: So while Linux Containers were promised and that means LXC No, it doesn’t [1] , and this fundamental misunderstanding really kind of destroys the rest of your question. LXC was never promised and I don’t believe it’s intended to come. The containers are Docker containers, …

If that’s misunderstanding that’s unfortunate. I based my understanding on multiple sources that support that “Linux Containers” means LXC. For example: Linux containers, also known as LXC, was the first implementation of system containers that was entirely based on mainline Linux features. So…

“Linux Containers” with a capital ‘C’ is possibly LXC. (And I’ll keep wondering what’s LXD… Probably another case of the NIH syndrome.) Most people would understand “Linux containers” as “these images you run with Docker”—or simply as “docker”. Interpretations based on capitalisations should be ta…

Thats for clearing this misunderstanding about the name. So no plans yet, ok.

From what I understand LXD/Incus is layer above LXC. LXC is more low-level while LXD/Incus acts as higher level manager for easier use. So they are not competing solutions but complementary products from the same devs. At least I think. About LXC and nspawn. I googled for days to find differences…

The solution can be running Proxmox in Jailmaker (nspawn) and use it for both VMs and LXC containers. I do it like that, works like a charm, so I do have all the advantages of TrueNAS and Proxmox (almost) without overheads.

Er… what’s the point of running a hypervisor in a virtual enviroment? Virtualisation is complicated enough without beginning with nested virtualisation, isn’t it?

I am running Proxmox in a nspawn container with full system privileges, it is not virtualisation, but isolation with close to zero overheads. So hypervisor is running on bare metal. The purpose is pretty clear - to get “normal” virtualisation and containerisation manager with the full clustering sup…

Cool! I tried LXD and Incus in jailmaker but not Proxmox! Care to make a PR with the config template?

A neat thing with proxmox in a sandbox is you know the storage is available when it boots :wink: May even make sense to provide it the zfs dev?

What are the plans for Linux Containers?

Apps and Virtualization

priezz July 26, 2024, 10:44pm 17

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What are the plans for Linux Containers?

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