title: "LXD: Containers for Human Beings" subtitle: "Docker's great and all, but I prefer the workflow of interacting with VMs" date: 2023-06-14T10:50:41-04:00 categories:
- Technology tags:
- Sysadmin
- Containers
- VMs
- Docker
- LXD draft: true rss_only: false cover: ./cover.png
This is a blog-post-version of a talk I presented at both Ubuntu Summit 2022 and SouthEast LinuxFest 2023. The first was not recorded, but the second was and is on SELF's PeerTube instance. I apologise for the terrible, but there's unfortunately nothing I can do about that.
The benefits of VMs and containers
- Isolation: we don't want an attacker to get into our webserver and be able to gain access to our email server
- Flexibility: VMs and containers only use the resources they've been given
- Portability: once set up and configured, VMs and containers can mostly be treated as black boxes; as long as the surrounding environment is similar to the previous in terms of communication, they can just be picked up and dropped on bare metal servers as necessary.
- Density:
- Cleanliness: