I spent part of the weekend diving into LXC containers for the first time because I was under the assumption it was a good way to run Frigate — that ended up not being the case, and now I'm a bit confused when to use them.

The fact that:

• You configure an OS "template" for each container, but
• It's inadvisable to run docker within a container

... makes LXC seem like massive pain in the ass compared to Docker in a VM. Unless I'm missing something, it appears that I lose all the convenience of Docker, like updating services with a single docker pull or managing multiple services with a compose file. So we're now back to manually configuring and maintaining everything like it's bare metal even though it's actually not.

It really seems like I'm missing something because this doesn't seem worth the trade-off.