Good project, but there are more modern alternatives out there
Rating: 6 out of 10
March 27, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
Creating local deployments of complex projects for development and testing purposes. It's mostly used by developers to replicate a production environment in their local machine, but it's easier to set up than a Virtual Machine. Although I've used Linux Containers LXD in one project in the last few years it's made almost obsolete by more modern projects like Docker, which enable you to do the same thing with a more organized approach that can be easily shared with other developers and quickly spun up in development or even production machines.
- Creating virtualized Linux environments.
- Creating reproducible software builds.
- Quickly spinning up a development environment.
Cons
- Ease of use.
- Copying containers from one machine to another.
- Creation of containers with config files similar to Docker.
- Creating Linux Containers.
- Quicker development cycles.
- Reduced need for different physical machines or servers.
- Standardized development environment.
- Docker
Linux Containers LXD feels like a more primitive version of docker, docker-compose and similar projects from the docker ecosystem. The Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml methods of specifying a container setup, as well as the network and file configurations afforded by Docker make working with containers much easier and more reproducible than with Linux Containers LXD.