Docker vs LXC?

[ttabbal]

So, with all the traffic regarding Docker around here, I looked into it some more. It seems like an interesting idea, but I'm having trouble figuring out what's different compared to LXC/Containers, BSD Jails, etc...

Is the popularity due to the ready-made "appliances"?

Easier to update/maintain?

I'll probably set up a KVM instance to play with it as a test, but I'm just curious why people choose it over the other various options out there...

 

[Jeggs101]

@ttabbal LXC is more like a VM container

BUT here's the biggest difference.... Docker is like 100X as popular. So virtually everything comes in Docker now. LXC is still doing a lot by hand.

 

[gea]

In earlier times Docker has used LXC as interface to Linux.
Docker drops LXC as default execution environment

Basically it seems to be a difference regarding management and the way how container are deployed and distributed. It should be even possible to use Docker container in an LX environment (I can imagine this in OmniOS that offers LX zones but currently not the full Docker integration like SmartOS, the source of Illumos/OmniOS LX)

That said without deep knowledge of Docker

 

[RobertFontaine]

Naive question of the moment, what kinds of applications make sense on the same server using containers rather rather than on their own vm? and why?