Today is the first day of Red Hat Summit 2017, this year in Boston. I'm not there, but am thoroughly enjoying watching the keynotes and other interviews via TheCube on Summit. One of the big things that we've been working on for a while that was announced today is the …

This week's TechMail was How to create LXC system containers to isolate services which goes into further details on using LXC, using an OpenVZ template to create a new LXC container for use, and a brief rundown on how to configure it, start it, etc.

This week's techmail is Introducing Linux virtual containers with LXC. I played with LXC for the first time a little while ago when writing this tip, and it's pretty slick. It's not quite as feature-complete or as robust as OpenVZ, but it's very close. It also has some benefits over …

This week's TechMail is Gain fine control in OpenVZ with resource management which discusses how to setup and manipulate resource management in OpenVZ. As with any other virtualization solution, OpenVZ allows you to assign resources to your containers so they cannot exceed them and consume inappropriate amounts of memory, CPU …

This week's TechMail is Create an OpenVZ container which discusses how to create your own OpenVZ container using pre-built templates. I've really fallen in love with OpenVZ; I find it much simpler and much faster than VMware or other full virtualization solutions. It's a real shame that it doesn't work …

This week's TechMail is Install OpenVZ on CentOS to create a virtual container which discusses using the OpenVZ virtualization software. I have to admit, I've become extremely fond of OpenVZ. I stumbled upon it as the open source version of Virtuozzo which is used by a lot of VPS providers …