Robot Operating System Cookbook

Getting ready

LXC (Linux Containers) is an OS-level virtualization technology that allows the creation and running of multiple isolated Linux virtual environments (VE) on a single control host. These isolation levels or containers can be used to either sandbox specific applications or emulate an entirely new host. LXC uses the Linux cgroups functionality, which was introduced in version 2.6.24, to allow the host CPU to better partition memory allocation into isolation levels called namespaces (https://linuxcontainers.org/).

Docker, previously called dotCloud, was started as a side project and only open sourced in 2013. It is really an extension of the LXC capabilities. This it achieved using a high-level API that provides a lightweight virtualization ...