LibCT

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DescriptionEdit

LibCT is a containers management library which provides convenient API for frontend programs to rule a container during its whole lifetime.

Project resourcesEdit

The source code is on GitHub.

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ReleasesEdit

TBD

Development statusEdit

Status	Feature
DONE	C/C++ bindings (for Parallels SDK)
DONE	Python bindings (for OpenStack)
DONE	Fine grained support for namespaces and cgroups
+/-	Extendable support for different private FS
+/-	Extendable support for different NICs
DONE	Support for external bind mounts
DONE	Ability to enter a CT
+/-	Ability to configure running CT
-	Integration with CRIU for checkpointing
-	Integration with CRIU for migration
-	Ability to operate on remote host
-	Ability to be used by non-root App
-	Ability to resurrect after sudden App crash
-	Ability to work on OpenVZ kernel (backend)
-	Ability to run libct supporting tools on older (OpenVZ) kernels (depends on above)
+/-	Integration with Docker libcontainer to give any container system implementing the ability to deploy docker packages
-	Backend for Solaris Zones and probably Virtuozzo Windows Containers

See alsoEdit

• Initial integration of libct into libcontainer
• LibCT was announced at Linux Plumbers 2015. Slides are available.
• First mention of LibCT in press
• LibCT packages in various Linux distributions.

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