LXD Reviews

LXD Description

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.