11. Controlling Containers

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new modelthat makes the existing model obsolete.R. Buckminster Fuller

In systems administration today, containers such as Docker, Kubernetes and Linux Containers (LXC) are a popular topic. With the rise of containers happening alongside the maturity of OpenStack itself, OpenStack has worked to sync up with the latest technology for supporting the running and management of containers.

OpenStack began by supporting the most basic Virtual Machine-like manipulation of individual container instances, but has quickly moved into producing a whole project within OpenStack to support the container ecosystem, allowing for native tooling provided ...

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