linux container host os and container os question

jzoudavy · 08-31-2015, 04:39 PM

Hi

I am playing around with LXC to famalirize myself with containers. I have the following question: it is my understanding with docker your host OS and container OS have to be the same.

But I am looking at LXC it has options to create many different containers that have different OSes like ubuntu/centos/opensuse etc while the host OS is, for example, ubuntu.

Why is that?

Thanks

TobiSGD · 09-01-2015, 05:21 AM

Both, Docker and LXC, allow you to run any Linux distribution in their containers, regardless which host distribution you use.