14 engineers on Hacker News describe using LXC first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“The userland tool (what we now know as "lxc") was finicky. ... it was just too unreliable and we swapped it out for an in-house Go implementation”
regret · production · shykes · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“LXCs are awesome, but being bound to just them or qemu VMs doesn't fit all of my needs.”
endorse · personal · WaxProlix · 2024-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“then proper lxc containers. Removing docker from the equation from our developer and production environments.”
endorse · production · iamNumber4 · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“plain LXC is an absolute pita to use, at least it was in 2012 (the last time I used it in prod, aside from Docker)”
regret · production · sleepycal · 2015-02-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to lxc in 2010 when it became usable.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · shykes · 2013-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we switched from chroots to LXC I had to show ROI”
neutral · production · bandrami · 2026-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It currently uses LXC as the runtime but that's being replaced as well.”
neutral · production · kdrag0n · 2026-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Custom dashboard to correlate HAProxy server stats with run-time container (LXC) hooks.”
neutral · production · rtp4me · 2025-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This folder is then bind-mount (read-only) to the Funkwhale-Docker inside an LXC container.”
neutral · personal · Helmut10001 · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we could do everything we need in production with LXC, puppet, carton and perlbrew.”
neutral · production · mrbig4545 · 2015-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Given some security constraints from the product, lxc + docker helps us restrict memory and networking.”
neutral · production · amm · 2014-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“was excited to try out LXC a couple of years back - and it felt similar to very early years of the big jails push”
neutral · personal · lifeisstillgood · 2014-09-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“since Docker 0.8 or 0.9 lxc-attach is not usable anymore because the default Docker backend no longer uses LXC”
neutral · personal · FooBarWidget · 2014-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think there is no shame in saying we use LXC container technology. We can run on these systems patched”
neutral · production · rdtsc · 2013-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?