lmctfy ("Let Me Contain That For You", pronounced "l-m-c-t-fi") is an implementation of an

operating system–level virtualization OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, called ''containers'' (LXC, Solaris containers, Docker, Podman), ''zones'' (Solaris containers), ''v ...

, which is based on the

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cgroups cgroups (abbreviated from control groups) is a Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, etc.) of a collection of processes. Engineers at Google started the work on this ...

functionality. It provides similar functionality to other container-related

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tools such as Docker and

LXC Linux Containers (LXC) is an operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a control host using a single Linux kernel. The Linux kernel provides the cgroups functionality that allows li ...

. Lmctfy is the release of Google's container tools and is

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subject to the terms of Apache License version 2.0. The maintainers in May 2015 stated their effort to merge their concepts and abstractions into Docker's underlying library libcontainer and thus stopped active development of lmctfy.

References

External links

Presentation slides from initial release announcement

Project website

Project "README" file providing overview

Google Groups post providing in depth comparison with the LXC
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