Canonical LXC vs. Canonical LXD
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Canonical LXC | Canonical LXD |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Review count | 13 | 16 |
| Ease of use | 8.5 | 8.1 |
| Ease of setup | 9.1 | 8.1 |
| Quality of support | 8.3 | 8.3 |
| Meets requirements | 9.2 | 8.7 |
| NPS | 38.461538 | 68.75 |
| Small Business | 69.2% | 56.3% |
| Mid-Market | 23.1% | 25.0% |
| Enterprise | 7.7% | 18.8% |
| Total page views | 31 | 32 |
| Total LLM citations | 17 | 34 |
Canonical LXC
Canonical LXC by Linuxcontainers.org is a set of tools, templates, library and language bindings. It's pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel.
- Features
- User Interface
- Container Management
- Simple
- Integration
- Flexibility
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.
- Features
- Container Management
- Simple
- Installation Ease
- Reliability