Difference between Docker and OpenVZ

The perspective on containers is very different between the 2. In short OpenVZ sees a container as a VPS, and docker sees a container as an application/service. What does this imply? For OpenVZ you can expect that when you create containers, its sort of like making Virtual Servers. OpenVZ has interfaces focussed on setting up … Read more

iptables nat does not exist

Due to the update of vzctl from 4.6 to 4.7 they changed the setting of nf_conntrack to be disabled by default. (https://openvz.org/Download/vzctl/4.7/changes) Corresponding commit message: … Disable conntrack for VE0 by default IP conntrack functionality has some negative impact on venet performance (uo to about 10%), so they better be disabled by default. … (Source: … Read more

Running containers inside a virtual machine?

Docker is VERY lightweight compared to a VM and a VM system should function just fine running containers. Each container essentially does run as an isolated system so it’s very good for isolation from a perspective of system stability. Based on your description it sounds like the ideal use case for Docker. If you do … Read more