Containerization with LXC

Konstantin Ivanov

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781785888946
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Informatica
• Thema: Virtualizzazione

Get acquainted with the world of LXC

About This Book

• Get the most practical and up-to-date resource on LXC and take full advantage of what Linux containers can offer in the day-to-day operations of large-scale applications
• Learn how to deploy and administer various workloads such as web applications inside LXC
• Save your organization time and money by building robust and secure containers and by speeding the deployment process of your software

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Linux engineers and software developers who are looking to deploy applications in a fast, secure, and scalable way for use in testing and production.

What You Will Learn

• Deep dive into the foundations of Linux containers with kernel namespaces and cgroups
• Install, configure, and administer Linux containers with LXC and libvirt
• Begin writing applications using Python libvirt bindings
• Take an in-depth look at container networking
• Set up monitoring and security with LXC
• Build and deploy a highly available application with LXC in the cloud

In Detail

In recent years, containers have gained wide adoption by businesses running a variety of application loads. This became possible largely due to the advent of kernel namespaces and better resource management with control groups (cgroups). Linux containers (LXC) are a direct implementation of those kernel features that provide operating system level virtualization without the overhead of a hypervisor layer.

This book starts by introducing the foundational concepts behind the implementation of LXC, then moves into the practical aspects of installing and configuring LXC containers. Moving on, you will explore container networking, security, and backups. You will also learn how to deploy LXC with technologies like Open Stack and Vagrant. By the end of the book, you will have a solid grasp of how LXC is implemented and how to run production applications in a highly available and scalable way.

Style and approach

A practical guide that introduces the core technologies behind Linux containers and provides a deep dive into installation, configuration, and operations of LXC.

Containerization with LXC

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Containerization with LXC

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Author Konstantin Ivanov	Copy Editor Tom Jacob
Reviewer Jay Payne	Project Coordinator Kinjal Bari
Commissioning Editor Kartikey Pandey	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Mansi Sanghavi	Indexer Mariammal Chettiyar
Content Development Editor Radhika Atitkar	Graphics Kirk D'Penha
Technical Editors Devesh Chugh Bhagyashree Rai	Production Coordinator Aparna Bhagat

About the Author

Konstantin Ivanov is a Linux systems engineer, an open source developer, and a technology blogger who has been designing, configuring, deploying, and administering large-scale, highly available Linux environments for more than 15 years.

His interests include large distributed systems and task automation, along with solving technical challenges involving multiple technology stacks.

Konstantin received two MS in Computer Science from universities in Bulgaria and the United States, specializing in system and network security and software engineering.

In his spare time, he loves writing technology blogs and spending time with his two boys. He can be reached on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantinivanov or on his blog at http://www.linux-admins.net/.

About the Reviewer

Jay Payne has been a database administrator 5 at Rackspace for over 10 years, working on the design, development, implementation, and operation of storage systems.

Previously, Jay worked on billing and support systems for hosting companies. For the last 20 years, he has primarily focused on the data life cycle, from database architecture, administration, operations, reporting, disaster recovery, and compliance. He has domain experience in hosting, finance, billing, and customer support industries.

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Dedication

I dedicate this book to my uncle Radoslav, who took me to his work when I was 8 years old in a computer manufacturing facility and sparked a life-long passion for technology and science, and to my parents, Anton and Darinka, who sold the family car to buy me my first computer.

Preface

Not too long ago, we used to deploy applications on a single server, scaling up by adding more hardware resources—we called it "the monolith ap...