LXC is using containers in the same manner as VMs.  There are still reasons to use a container over a VM.  To name a big one, application density.  There&#x27;s a Canonical page about it I can dig up if you want that claims you can get ~14 times the OS density with LXC containers that you can with KVM VMs.  That allows you to provide a high degree of separation while still allowing you to use more traditional tools to manage it.<p>Not everyone is of the caliber that tends to browse HN.  Not everyone adapts to new technology as quickly as people around here tend to, especially if that new technology requires a huge upheaval in the way that things have been done for the last 10 or 15 years.  Using containers the same way we do VMs provides a lot of the benefits of containers without requiring a drastic change from other departments.