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