google/lmctfy

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3403 stars · 237 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

lmctfy (Let Me Contain That For You) is the open-source version of Google's container stack, providing Linux application containers with resource isolation for CPU, memory, and devices. It is released as both a C++ library and a CLI, built around a high-level intent-based API for creating and managing container hierarchies.

Use cases

• isolate cpu and memory resources for applications on a single linux machine
• create application containers from the command line
• build container-aware applications that manage their own subcontainers
• create heavily isolated virtual hosts on linux
• learn how google implemented its internal container stack

When to choose

• you need a historical reference implementation of Google's container abstractions
• you want an intent-based C++ API for Linux container resource isolation
• you are researching the origins of libcontainer and modern container runtimes

When to avoid

• you need a maintained container runtime - the project is stalled and development moved to libcontainer
• you want broad configuration support out of the box
• you need production container management - use Docker, containerd, or runc instead

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

container-runtime cli security infrastructure-as-code cpp cli linux-containers resource-isolation cgroups google libcontainer virtual-hosts containers devops linux

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