Project Summary
This site is about lxctl - utility to manage different aspects of Linux Containers (also known as LXC). The project was started when we have realized that we don't want to use OpenVZ anymore because of the ancient kernel. LXC itself doesn't give any convenient method of managing containers, so we've decided to make it more user-friendly. And now it have almost all abilities of vzctl utilities and some unique ones. Lxctl is modular, so you can easily add your own module which can be deployed separately. It's written in perl and distributes under two licenses: GPLv2+ or Artistic.
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in July, 2011
ending with its most recent commit over 7 years ago
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