LXC Containers

LXC Containers are a containerisation solution.  Like Virtual Machines they are a virtual representation of a computer within another computer system using hypervisor technology.

Unlike Virtual Machines their overall resources are shared between the host hypervisor system.  This means their overhead is much less, allowing quicker boots and restorations.

They are deemed to be less secure as they have to remain unprivileged so any edits they do do not affect the parent hypervisor system as kernel supplied management is shared.

We have the following LXC Containers

1. Mysql
2. Redis
3. MaticTrack (NGINX, Imagemagic, Ruby, Ghostscript)
4. RocketChat
5. Elasticsearch