Canonical LXC Reviews & Product Details

LXC being an open-source resource, it's convenient as we get a lot of usage/troubleshooting info on the internet. And has an interface familiar to developers working on top of Linux/Unix variants, which makes goto for engineers in startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maybe not as popular as K8s or Docker. It may be because it doesn't have as many pre-cooked flavours as things like K8s have. Or maybe people find it too technical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm using the lxc container for virtualisation since long and so far I liked it more then kvm/ libvert or any other virtualisation technology. Great tool. Hats off to the developers. Keep it up mates! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it gets tough to move containers but it's okay as the entire system is so much lighter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexiblity to create new full fledged environments. Easy backup and restore using snapshots. Easy to move servers when required.

Better than containers if you want more than one process running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not a lot of community support apart from the official documents.

More use case specific images can help with faster setups with tighter control. For now there are only os images commonly found Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lxc helps me easily build and deploy microservice containers inside a linux servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

im not sure if lxc already have a console like management. but it is a good thing to have a UI console when managing the lxc container so i can easily click on some operations like scaling up and down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to natively integrate with Ubuntu out of the box and then the familiar interface like docker was straightforward to grasp. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The community is not that huge already, unlike docker. Niche issues may take a lot of time to debug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy to create container and performance good and stable and good when support for zfs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

network are quite difficulties to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's an effective way to have more isolated virtual containers on a server than most other virtualization approaches. With the feel of a full OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For my usage there has been nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its a container act like a VM and give us fullest freedom to play around Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It should have orchestration tool like kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LXC is the basis for most container engines very used today, such as Docker and Podman. From the point of performance and resource usage, working directly with this technology is a luxury to make the most of your machine's resources at the usage level. CPU and memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At the first time, it may be a bit difficult to understand, but if you have worked with virtualization technologies, the learning curve is not difficult. However, improving the documentation could make this process easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lxc has a good engine for contanarizing, Simply you can make a container with any linux distro in just seconds .

Network management is very easy and you can manage it with just one file to configure it.

Resources management for CPU & Memory is good and it limit everything.

Forwarding traffic from outside world to the container is very easy and I do believe it can be handled without your interference.

Flexibility in cloning containers and taking snapshots with the existing configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limiting the disk space per container is not the best thing in LXC , and creating container with specific partitioning format is not an easy task to do.

Lack of documentation for LXC and there is no updated guide to go through it . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.