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Canonical LXD Overview

What is Canonical LXD?

Canonical LXD is a next generation system container manager.It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.

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Canonical LXD is a next generation system container manager.It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.


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We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'​. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.


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Hinal S.
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Hinal S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Best environment to work virtually"
I'm really impressed by Canonical LXD! It's like a supercharged way to manage containers that feels as easy as using virtual machines. They've got...
Sindhura K.
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Sindhura K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Canonical LXD the best"
They run a full operating system inside them, you can run any type of workload, and you manage them exactly as you would a virtual or a physical ma...
Ayush S.
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4.5 out of 5
"Efficient Container Management and Virtualization with Canonical LXD"
lightweight approach to container management and offers web-based graphical interface (LXDUI) that simplify container creation, configuration, and ...
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Ahmed S.
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What do you like best about Canonical LXD?

The ease of deploying a container in just few simple steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXD?

There is a problem in Lxd as this software has no pqckage in the apt of debian or ubuntu and you need to install it with snap and this will put layer of file system that you don't need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you?

Main problem that I need a software which can deploy a container with easy setting no complex things to do , and I found thag lxd is straightforward container manager as you can deploy , destroy, attach devices , deattch them , storage management.

Of course all of these things made my life easier when deploy a container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sudhanshu S.
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What do you like best about Canonical LXD?

CoreAPI: which is very scalable, event-based, and has excellent product support.

Backup And Restore: All objects are managed by LXD and using CRUI, we can do live migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXD?

It cannot be integrated with K8s, Jenkins, public cloud technology stacks. Not very popular like docker, so not too many discussions are available at StackOverflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Canonical LXD:

If you wish to do an OS virtualization, then Canonical LXD will be a worthy choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are re-utilizing our existing hardware to set up Operating System Virtualization for setting up a private cloud, integrating with our current OpenStack, which our application teams can leverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Canonical LXD?

Easy of use, minimal resource requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXD?

Lack of an integrated web management view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web hosting is cheaper and easier to manage in our servers now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike B.
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What do you like best about Canonical LXD?

High performance due to running in LXC (Linux Containers), but for single system installs. Compatible with existing Vagrant box workflow via vagrant-lxd provider (and can be coupled without a cloud provider such as vagrant-digitalocean for a high performance local dev that can match affordable staging and production environments and can even spin them up), or via lxdock (less robust and not well maintained anymore). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXD?

Setup can be difficult to newcomers, Snap version available for non-Ubuntu distros seems to have some issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you?

Avoiding the dreaded "It works on my local!" without switching team to a multi-container Docker setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Canonical LXD?

optimization in the use of resources of the server, for the company it is important to be able to take full advantage of a server, without falling into underutilization. It is the software that occupies less resources, very close to the hardware, easy to configure, but it lacks a graphical interface for its administration. In our case we use it with high network availability. I recommend this software 100%, because having powerful servers to offer robust architectures for business is an imperative for any team working within a company.I think that in the near future, the fact of passing a container running from a machine A to a machine B, will be easy to use and quite simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXD?

sometimes the configurations are a bit complex and it lacks an administration and configuration interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Canonical LXD:

The world need a gpahical interface for to manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provide virtualization services for clients, It is not necessary to buy server hardware, it can be reused Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.