I recommend looking into nspawn - it's a systemd enabled service that runs LXC containers

here is an example of a deployment script i built most of:

https://github.com/relaytools/relay-tools-images

it's a bit more manual than docker but you aren't forced into the use of aufs or whatever overlay filesystem so it's got a bit less overhead at that level

performance is pretty much near the same as running the server not in a container, it mostly only controls access to kernel resources via namespaces