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LXD
Canonical
LXD is the next generation system container manager. It provides a similar user experience to virtual machines, but with Linux containers instead. It is image-based and has pre-made images for a variety of Linux distributions. It is built around a powerful, but simple, REST API. You can get a better understanding of LXD and its capabilities by trying it online. If you are interested in running it locally, then take a look to our getting started guide. Canonical Ltd founded the LXD project and leads it today. Contributions from other companies and individuals are also welcome. LXD's core is a privileged daemon that exposes a REST API both over a local socket and over the network (if it is enabled). Clients, such the command line tool included with LXD, then access that REST API to perform all tasks. This means that everything works the same regardless of whether you are talking to a local host or remote server. -
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LXC
Canonical
LXC is the userspace interface to the Linux kernel containment features. It allows Linux users to create and manage system and application containers using a simple API and simple tools. LXC containers can be described as something that is somewhere in between a chroot or a fully fledged virtual machine. LXC aims to provide an environment that is as close to a standard Linux installation as possible, but without the need to use a separate kernel. LXC is free software. Most of the code is released under GNU LGPLv2.1+, some Android compatibility bits under a standard 2-clause BSD licence, and some binaries, templates, and binaries are released under GNU GPLv2.