1---
 2title: "LXD: Containers for Human Beings"
 3subtitle: "Docker's great and all, but I prefer the workflow of interacting with VMs"
 4date: 2023-06-14T10:50:41-04:00
 5categories:
 6- Technology
 7tags:
 8- Sysadmin
 9- Containers
10- VMs
11- Docker
12- LXD
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14rss_only: false
15cover: ./cover.png
16---
17
18This is a blog-post-version of a talk I presented at both Ubuntu Summit 2022 and
19SouthEast LinuxFest 2023. The first was not recorded, but the second was and is
20on [SELF's PeerTube instance.][selfpeertube] I apologise for the terrible, but
21there's unfortunately nothing I can do about that.
22
23[selfpeertube]: https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/hjiTPHVwGz4hy9n3cUL1mq?start=1m
24
25## The benefits of VMs and containers
26
27- **Isolation:** we don't want an attacker to get into our webserver and be able
28  to gain access to our email server
29- **Flexibility:** <abbr title="Virtual Machines">VMs</abbr> and containers only
30  use the resources they've been given
31- **Portability:** once set up and configured, VMs and containers can mostly be
32  treated as black boxes; as long as the surrounding environment is similar to
33  the previous in terms of communication, they can just be picked up and dropped
34  on bare metal servers as necessary.
35- **Density:**
36- **Cleanliness:**