LXC

Facts

Implemented in

C, Bourne shell

Latest version

7.0 (April 30, 2026)

Appeared

2006

Licence

GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later

Kind

free and open-source software, container runtime

Developer

Christian Brauner, Linux Containers

Based on

Linux kernel, cgroups

Platform

ARM architecture, x86, PowerPC, x86-64, SPARC, IA-64

Operating system

Linux

Used for

containerization

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