Getting ready
Container support is not provided in stock distributions. You'll need to install it separately. The level of support across distributions is inconsistent. The lxc container system was developed by Canonical, so Ubuntu distributions have complete container support. Debian 9 (Stretch) is better than Debian 8 (Jessie) in this regard.
Fedora has limited support for lxc containers. It is easy to create privileged containers and a bridged Ethernet connection, but as of Fedora 25, the cgmanager service required for unprivileged containers is unavailable.
SuSE supports limited use of lxc. SuSE's libvirt-lxc package is similar but not identical to lxc. SuSE's libvirt-lxc package is not covered in this chapter. A privileged container ...
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