Building an opensource high availability datacenter with shared GPU : Creation of the first LXC (CT) container

Creation of the first LXC (CT) container
Building an opensource high availability datacenter with shared GPU

Author : Laurent LEVIER

Publication date: July 10, 2019 | Lire en français

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5. Creation of the first LXC (CT) container

We now know how to build virtual machines that ignore everything, allowing you to install Android, MacOS, Windows... This is the principle of virtualization. There is a technology known as isolation, which enables application processes (including the operating system) to be enclosed in restricted zones with limited resources and rights. This is known as the LXC container. This technology is more powerful, and also enables rapid, lightweight deployment (thin provisioning), but is naturally less secure than virtualization. How does it work?

5.1 Retrieving templates

First of all, a CT container is based on a template that must be present on the hypervisor. The first step is to define and download these archives. To do this, you need to select a storage zone that...

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