Audience

Organizations that need a next generation system container manager

About LXD

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. To get a better idea of what LXD is and what it does, you can try it online! Then if you want to run it locally, take a look at our getting started guide. The LXD project was founded and is currently led by Canonical Ltd with contributions from a range of other companies and individual contributors. The core of LXD is a privileged daemon which exposes a REST API over a local unix socket as well as over the network (if enabled). Clients, such as the command line tool provided with LXD itself then do everything through that REST API. It means that whether you're talking to your local host or a remote server, everything works the same way.

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Company Information

Canonical
linuxcontainers.org/lxd/introduction/

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Product Details

Platforms Supported
Linux
Training
Documentation

LXD Frequently Asked Questions

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LXD Product Features

Container Management

Virtualization
Application Development
Build Automation
Deployment Automation
Container Storage
Access Control
Automatic Scaling
Hybrid Deployments
Shared File Systems
Version Control
Network Isolation
Orchestration
File Isolation
Container Health Management