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by linuxandrew 616 days ago
I've recently discovered systemd-nspawn which is an alternative to LXC, builtin and integrated into systemd. Much lighter than full VMs and it's quite similar to Solaris Zones and FreeBSD jails. One way to use it is to extract an OCI (Docker) image to a path, that way you can reuse the container tooling provided by Docker, Podman et al.

I've barely touched the BSDs and it's been a few years since I last used Solaris so I can't make much of a comparison as a user myself.

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Thanks for this! I have been using LXC/LXD for a long time and never knew about systemd-nspawn. Time to go learn something new!