yup - overloaded terminology. Sounds a little like running a process under cgroups isolation 15+ years ago. Looking that up briefly I see the term 'process container' which I guess is the same thing. Thanks.
On Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 6:21:16 AM UTC-7 Paul R Anderson wrote: > Vince, > Your confusion is probably caused by the enormous popularity of Docker. At > this point most of us hear the word Container and only think of Docker. > This is also a huge reason why LXC Containers are nowhere near as popular > as Docker containers , no one knows they exist, let alone what they are. > *LXC Containers are system containers* > *Docker Containers are Application containers* > There are generally at least two types of containers: Application > containers, and System containers > There's a good blog post from Ubuntu that explains it much better than I > can. > What are Linux containers? > <https://ubuntu.com/blog/what-are-linux-containers> > > Brief excerpt from the blog post: > > " Application vs system containers > Application containers (such as Docker) are containers running a single > process per container. They run stateless types of workloads so that you > can ramp up and down as needed – create new containers and delete them at > any time. Usually, you don’t need to care about the lifecycle of those > containers, as they are meant to be ephemeral. > > The other type of containers, system containers, are much closer to a > virtual or a physical machine. They run a full operating system inside > them, and you manage them exactly as you would a virtual or a physical > machine. That means you can install packages inside them, you can manage > services, define backup policies, monitoring, and all other aspects as you > usually would with a virtual machine. These containers are usually very > long-lasting. If you need to update them, you can do so with the normal > tooling of the Linux distribution you are using. It also means that you > will get normal security updates from distributions for those containers, > so you wouldn’t need to wait for any image to be published to get the > security fixes. " > > > > Paul > > On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 8:10 PM vince <vince...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have to admit being a little confused. A container running multiple >> processes that you can ssh into isn't a container, it's a virtual machine. >> >> On Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 4:42:00 AM UTC-7 Graham Eddy wrote: >> >>> i suggest testing before publishing.. >>> that won’t work without the permissions towards end of my lxc/105.conf >>> file >>> *⊣GE⊢* >>> >>> On 8 May 2024, at 9:25 PM, G7LTT <enic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Updated to add USB device to the container. >>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/dd2f4126-94ec-4456-b7c1-fc0fce4a6d3an%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/dd2f4126-94ec-4456-b7c1-fc0fce4a6d3an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/a3740533-b43c-4a87-a879-b50fb2f70aaan%40googlegroups.com.
