How to Install and Configure an LXC Container on Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction

Per Wikipedia, "LXC also known as a Linux Containers is a free, open source, lightweight and operating system-level virtualization software that allows us to run a multiple isolated Linux systems on a single Linux host. LXC provides the cgroups functionality that allows the limitation of resources like, CPU, memory, network without the need for starting any virtual machines. You can start Linux container without using the separate kernel using LXC. LXC allows your to run multiple instances of an operating system or application on a single host, without inducing overhead on CPU and memory. Containers can be used to quickly set up a virtual environment for testing/QA purposes."

In this tutorial, we will explain how to setup LXC container on Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance with Ubuntu 16.04.

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