The Linux Container team has announced release of LXC 2.1, latest stable release of tools, templates, language binding and libraries that support every containment technology offered by Linux Kernel. The LXC 2.1 release brings various new features after release of LXC 2.0.
LXC 2.1 release is not a long term supported release and hence it will be supported for a period of one year only. Those who prefer to have long term containment technology should stick with LXC 2.0, which will be supported till June 2021.
Citing from original release announcement appeared in Linux Container forums, following are features introduced in LXC 2.1 release.
LXC 2.1 release is not a long term supported release and hence it will be supported for a period of one year only. Those who prefer to have long term containment technology should stick with LXC 2.0, which will be supported till June 2021.
For complete list of changes in LXC 2.1 release, see original release announcement published by Linux Container team.
- Support to limit use of any resources : Similar to requesting specific cgroup limits users can specify any limits for any resource the underlying kernel is ware of by prefixing the name of the limit with "lxc.prlimit." in the container's configuration file.
- Support for unprivileged openvswitch networks : It is now possible to define openvswitch networks as an unprivileged user
- Support for hybrid cgroup layout : Since the advent of cgroup v2 some init systems have decided to allow for a hybrid mode in which cgroup v1 per-controller hierarchies can be used simultaneously with an empty cgroup v2 hierarchy.
- Ability to limit number ptys a container can allocate : Setting
lxc.pty.maxwill cause LXC to mount the container's devpts with the requested limit on the number of useable ptys. For example, settinglxc.pty.max = 10will only allow the container to allocate10ptys. The default setting is1024.- Extended log API
- Deprecation of lxc-monitord
- Various configuration changes