Table of contents

• Introduction to Linux Containers
• The OS kernel and its early limitations
• The case for Linux containers
• Linux namespaces – the foundation of LXC
• Mount namespaces
• UTS namespaces
• PID namespaces
• User namespaces
• Network namespaces
• Resource management with cgroups
• Limiting I/O throughput
• Limiting memory usage
• The cpu and cpuset subsystems
• The cgroup freezer subsystem
• Using userspace tools to manage cgroups and persist changes
• Managing resources with systemd
• Installing and Running LXC on Linux Systems
• Installing LXC on Ubuntu from source