Name: Linux Containers LXD
Rating: 9.3 (3 reviews)
Author: Open Source

Communications Outsourcing

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Changelog

Chatbot

JavaScript Frameworks

Development

Attendance Tracking

Career Center

K-12 Online Learning

Education

Audit

Barcode

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Manufacturing Execution

Project Portfolio Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Benefits Administration

Corporate Learning Management

Credentialing

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Storage

Data Center Infrastructure Management

Data Center Outsourcing (USA)

Data Pipeline

Data Virtualization

Desktop Management

Desktop Outsourcing

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

File Sync and Share

Fraud Detection

HTML Editors

IT Asset Management

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

IT Operations Analytics

Identity Management

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Message Queue

Modular Storage Area Network (SAN)

Network Performance Monitoring

Storage Area Network

Technology Business Management

Testing Services

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

Affiliate

All-in-One Marketing

Contact Center

Content Management

Customer Experience Management

Digital Asset Management

Email Marketing

Intent Data

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Video Conferencing

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Trade Promotion Management

Sales

Auto Repair

Emergency Notification

PCB Design

Pharmacy

Public Sector Software

Retail Analytics

Vertical-Specific

small

medium

Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open source server virtualization management solution based on QEMU/KVM and LXC. Users can manage virtual machines, containers, highly available clusters, storage and networks via a web interface or CLI. Proxmox VE code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. The project is developed and maintained by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.

Community

Basic

Standard

Premium

Proxmox VE

Server Virtualization

Virtual machine automated provisioning

Management console

Live virtual machine backup

Live virtual machine migration

Hypervisor-level security

Proxmox Server Solutions

large

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization solution developed by small Israeli software company Qumranet and supported by Red Hat since that company's acquisition in 2008.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Red Hat

A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.

VMware ESXi

VMware by Broadcom

Kubernetes

Container Management

Security and Isolation

Container Orchestration

Cluster Management

Storage Management

Resource Allocation and Optimization

Discovery Tools

Update Rollouts and Rollbacks

Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux Systems. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Podman is open source and free, supported and maintained by the Containers organization, with code available from GitHub.

Podman.io

Open Source

Open source, cross-platform, virtualization software that enables developers to deliver code faster by running multiple operating systems on a single device, used to deploy applications on-premises and to the cloud. Oracle VM VIrtualBox is Oracle's cross-platform virtualization offering, acquired with Sun Microsystems in early 2010. The software was originally developed by Innotek GmbH.

Oracle VM VirtualBox

Oracle

Top Rated 2024

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Red Hat OpenShift

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Platform-as-a-Service

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

XenServer (formerly Citrix Hypervisor) is a virtualization management platform optimized for application, desktop and server virtualization infrastructures.

XenServer

Home & Student

Starter

Portainer Business - 3 Nodes Free

Professional

Portainer

Firecracker

LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager. It offers a unified user experience around full Linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines. LXD is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions. It supports various use cases, with support for different storage backends and network types and the option to install on hardware ranging from an individual laptop or cloud instance to a full server rack. LXD is written in Go. It is free software sponsored by Canonical Ltd, and developed under the Apache 2 license.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, available on AWS or on-premise through Amazon EKS Anywhere.

Amazon EKS Cluster

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon EKS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon AWS

Linux Containers LXD

Container Management Software uses a kernel to run multiple contained instances on a single operating system, reducing virtualization overhead considerably though presenting the limitation that guests must use the same OS as the host.

Likelihood to Recommend

Features commonly found in Container Management software.

Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.

The product’s ability to automate networking, deployment, scaling, and other container management functions.

Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.

Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.

Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.

Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.

Product provides tools or functionality to deliver updates to containerized applications in ways that minimize the impact of errors, and revert updates that cause problems.

Self-Healing and Recovery

Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.

Product provides tools to manage performance, health, and other data related to containers or clusters. This could include analytics tools, logging tools, live dashboards, etc.

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TrustRadius

Ease of use

Config files

Git repositories

Development environment

Home

Container Management Software

Docker

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.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Creating virtualized Linux environments.
Creating reproducible software builds.
Quickly spinning up a development environment.

Things done well

Ease of use.
Copying containers from one machine to another.
Creation of containers with config files similar to Docker.

Things done poorly

Linux Containers LXD works very well when you, as a software developer using Linux, need to spin up a development environment to build and work on a specific piece of software. For example, you need to build some software that is tested and developed target Ubuntu 18.04. You're able to quickly create a container for Ubuntu 18.04 and log into it to run commands and build your software. This is easier to do than setting a virtual machine - e.g - via Virtual Box, but is a lot clunkier than doing it via Docker containers which give you a much more flexible configuration of the environment and are easier to start, stop, connect and share with other developers.

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Quicker development cycles.
Reduced need for different physical machines or servers.
Standardized development environment.

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives

Other Software Used

Linux Containers LXD 2022-03-23 10:00:07

Linux containers ease our deploys - you can do it in a few command lines and the ability to access the server from the host shell with no issues and save some time in order to release a server 'cause you can create a standard image and to rollback anything if needed.

GIT repositories.
Authentication servers.
Application instances.

Documentation.
Run other OS simultaneously.

Scenarios where you need an authentication server, a GIT repository the system works very well 'cause you don't need any scalability and the ease to configure and share the same Linux system image across the containers and the rollback process is quick. I didn't put any critical applications there not because of the limitations but due to a company policy.

Ease of recovery.
Ease of configuration.
Ease to manage.

Linux Containers LXD 2022-02-17 03:40:06

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LXD

Overview

What is LXD?

Good project, but there are more modern alternatives out there

LXD review

Pricing

LXD

What is LXD?

Entry-level set up fee?

Offerings

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Alternatives Pricing

Proxmox VE

What is Proxmox VE?

Amazon EKS

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Product Details

What is LXD?

LXD Technical Details

Comparisons

Compare with

Proxmox VE

KVM

VMware ESXi

Kubernetes

Podman

Oracle VM VirtualBox

Red Hat OpenShift

XenServer

Portainer

Firecracker

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