What is your base LXC choice?

[SDMDS]

Proxmox have supplied several different container templates/images
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_Container

Looking into what differentiates them in "LXC-format" could be a bit complicated as some of them are slimmed down versions of normal distros. The nearest comparison I've found is: http://crunchtools.com/comparison-l...uld_You_Know_When_Selecting_a_Container_Image and that's an article in regards of Red Hat.

Would be interesting to hear what you have decided as base and the purpose of your LXC.

 

[oguz]

hi,

Would be interesting to hear what you have decided as base and the purpose of your LXC.

it depends mostly on your use case, but i would say the most common ones that i see are:
1. ubuntu
2. debian
3. alpine
4. centos
5. archlinux

a lot of times containers are used for running some applications in separated space, maybe like a webserver, database, or various things.

Looking into what differentiates them in "LXC-format" could be a bit complicated as some of them are slimmed down versions of normal distros.

container templates are just basically archives of the root filesystem of the OS on a base or close to base installation, nothing magic

 

[SDMDS]

Here's my own non-professional take:
I run basically one LXC = one major service/host
I use Debian Standard as template

I used to run Alpine. Eventually as the LXC farm grew, I also ran into problems since Alpine uses muslc as a C Library. This limited the amount of supported applications. Then I looked into what base would be supported well, glanced at TurnKey-solutions (Debian based) and realised that Proxmox is based on Debian. I don't know if it makes any difference, but it somehow feels suitable to run Debian LXCs on a Debian host.

 

[SDMDS]

container templates are just basically archives of the root filesystem of the OS on a base or close to base installation, nothing magic

I'm not the Wiki-admin, but a comparison table would be interesting. As once you scale down the distros, there are less and less differences. Would be interesting to hear why people chose Ubuntu over Debian for example, as they are both scaled down.

 

[oguz]

Would be interesting to hear why people chose Ubuntu over Debian for example, as they are both scaled down.

these aren't official stats at all, just my impressions from the forum users

I'm not the Wiki-admin, but a comparison table would be interesting. As once you scale down the distros, there are less and less differences

yes that might make sense to add into the page, thanks for the suggestion

 

[Dunuin]

I basically use the distro where I'm most experianced with and that I like the most, so there will be less human errors. For me that is Debian so I'm using that even if other distros like Alpine might have a bit smaller footprint.

 

[SDMDS]

That's a good point. I tried to research a bit what the overhead difference would be between Alpine and Debian Standard. After lots of googling about it, it seems the difference isn't that significant. Mostly docker comparisons comes up and some claims about Debian being quicker, bust slightly more overhead in RAM.