A few questions... - How robust are the containers, e.g., how have they been tested? - How secure are the containers, e.g., how can one be sure they don't contain backdoors, trojans, etc.? - What standards are required for the containers? - What's the support for problems with the containers?
Poorly implemented containers will do more harm than good for LXC. - Jon On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Tobby Banerjee <to...@flockport.com> wrote: > > Hi LXC users, > > I am extremely excited to announce the launch of Flockport.com to this > list, its home so to speak. > > Flockport.com was created to let users discover, download and share > portable and easy to use Linux containers (LXC) that can be deployed in > seconds. > > Flockport hosts an LXC repo for Debian Wheezy that provides all the > features of LXC out of the box - yah! like in Ubuntu. Flockport also > provides a Flockport utility to let users view and download Flockport > containers directly to their systems. > > At launch Flockport.com provides over 50 containers of some of the most > popular web applications. > > There is a significant information gap on LXC in the marketplace that > Flockport hopes to address. > > Flockport wants to make containers accessible to a much wider audience and > articulate and provide a broader use of containers as lightweight, > portable > and extremely fast alternative to virtualization. > > We have comprehensive documentation on setting up and using LXC. > We would absolutely love your feedback and thoughts. Thanks Stephane and > Serge for the fantastic blog posts! and Dr Rami Rosen for the wonderful > LXC > presentations! > > We have also put up an indepth piece on the key difference between LXC and > Docker and would love for you to weigh in. > > Introduction to Flockport > > Flockport containers > > Flockport LXC getting started guide > > Understanding the key differences between LXC and Docker > > I am happy to follow up with any information. I would like to thank > Stephane and Serge for making this possible and giving us a wonderful > project. > > Thank you for reading. > > Cheers! > > Tobby > Flockport > www.flockport.com > > About Flockport > Flockport.com is a hub to download and share LXC containers. Flockport > provides web stacks and applications in containers that can be deployed in > any LXC environment in a simple, predictable and easy way. Flockport is a > start up based in Mumbai founded by Indrajit Banerjee. Indrajit has over > 14 > years experience in enterprise software marketing and has previously > headed > the India marketing operations of Savvion, Progress Software and Redhat. > > > > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users