LXC Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Beyond Docker - A DevOps Engineer's Guide to Container Alternatives

  Working with legacy applications that needed full system access taught me that a different way to do containerization is by using LXC/LXD. The focus in system containers, rather than application containers, can be thought of like a light VM rather than what most consider the typical container. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Top 8 Docker Alternatives to Consider in 2025

  LXC provides system-level containerization, offering a different approach focused on creating environments that more closely resemble traditional virtual machines. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• RunCVM: An open-source Docker runtime for launching container images in VMs

  What situations would make this better than LXC? https://linuxcontainers.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Top 5 Docker Alternatives for Software Developers in 2024

  Linux Container Daemon (LXD) is a container and virtual machine manager developed by Canonical. It provides flexibility by offering a single process for multiple containers. It connects to the Linux container library (LXC) using a REST API. It is an add-on to LXC, providing more features and functionalities. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• A Brief History Of Serverless

  Docker introduced their new container technology at PyCon 2013. At this time, Docker containers were just a wrapper for Linux Containers but this fundamentally changed the landscape of computing (more on this later). - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• Best virtualization solution with Ubuntu 22.04

  Which is what docker/podman/containerd use. If you want full system emulation look into LXC/LXD. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Opinions on linux? I wanna hear yalls opinion on it, because you can do some cool shit with it, heres my own rice for a basic idea of what random shit you can do w/ it

  LXD is a manager for Linux Containers (LXC), which lets me spin up a kind-of lightweight VM for any distro, instantly. I use it to run proprietary software isolated from the rest of my system (such as Steam); disposable environments for trying stuff out, and running software that doesn't jive well with Nixos. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Error: Failed to connect to local LXD: Get "http://unix.socket/1.0": dial unix /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket: connect: no such file or directory

  Check this thread on linuxcontainers LXD forum. Half way down Simos points to the eventual solution:. Source: about 2 years ago

• Virtualisating my server

  I found this website https://linuxcontainers.org/ and I am going to test that out for server just to see how it works. Source: about 2 years ago

• Any good (and up to date) book about LXC/LXC

  Up to now the best documentation I have come across is the official one at linuxcontainers.org. Source: about 2 years ago

• Installing A Local Kubernetes

  After five years managing physical servers, then another four years working with VM clusters, the value of Linux Containers(LXC) and their eventual productization as Docker appealed to me. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Opportunities and Challenges of Technological Evolution in Cloud Native

  Docker introduced container images to the technology world, making container images a standardized delivery unit. In fact, before Docker, containerization technology already existed. Let's talk about a more recent technology, LXC (Linux Containers) in 2008. Compared to Docker, LXC is less popular since Docker provides container images, which can be more standardized and more convenient to migrate. Also, Docker... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• canonical/microcloud: Automated private cloud based on LXD and Ceph

  They might both be the same as the Canonical/Microcloud writeup references the work to Stephane Graber who also posted the linuxcontainers.org forum message about LXD microceph. Source: over 2 years ago

• How many VMs can I run on an i5-2500k?

  Linux containers (LXC) are the native containers available in Proxmox. These are quite a bit different than Docker containers. They behave and are managed more like "systems" with their own host name, IP address, shell, etc. TurnKey Linux builds and maintains a number of LXC templates that can be downloaded and installed for free. Source: over 2 years ago

• Alternatives to expensive ngrok ?

  - It's not clear to me yet if I need containers...if so I'm looking at linuxcontainers (linuxcontainers.org). Source: over 2 years ago

• I'm making a way of easily automating the creation of containers.

  Linuxcontainers.org does a pretty good job of describing the options. Source: over 2 years ago

• [Summary] GUI Applications to Manage & Orchestrate (MANO) LXD C... r/LXD

  Learn more about Linux containers and LXD/LXC here: linuxcontainers.org. Source: over 2 years ago

• New Self-Hosted Set-up and Security Questions

  If you do want more of a VM-like experience, there are also Linux containers which basically have the full distro experience. (I run PiHole this way (on a rpi4) with an Ethernet bridge for its own IP.). Source: over 2 years ago

• Any luck with the Hyundai Blue Link Plugin?

  Don't use Docker. Use LXD. Less overhead and easier to setup and manage. https://linuxcontainers.org. Source: over 2 years ago

• Whats the best way for a Raspberry Pi Homebridge environment. Docker?

  If you need to have containers, skip docker. Load Ubuntu and then use LXD, which has much lower overhead. Learn more here: https://linuxcontainers.org. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Community spotlight - we're looking for LXD examples to share

  If you read "rules" to the right you will notice that this sub-reddit is not supposed to be a "support" forum and points you to the linuxcontainers.org user forum to ask support type questions. Source: almost 3 years ago