It offers a unified user experience around full linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines.
Machine container lxd.
Lxc launch ubuntu 16 04 alternatively you can also use a remote lxd host as a source of images.
Traditionally lxd is used to create system containers light weight virtual machines that use linux container features and not hardware virtualization.
That is now with lxd you can create both system containers and virtual machines.
This feature is currently considered to be experimental with a lot of functionality still yet to be implemented in order to reach feature parity with containers.
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.
The linux kernel provides the cgroups functionality that allows limitation and prioritization of resources cpu memory block i o network etc without the need for starting any virtual machines and also namespace.
Now that the daemon is all configured and running you can create a container.
Storage pools and networks can also be created and managed through lxd and resources can be segmented into projects.
They are implemented through the use of qemu.
Lxd is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager.
However starting from lxd 3 19 it is possible to create virtual machines as well.
This version comes with a significant amount of new features including adding virtual machines vms support the introduction of projects and improved networking stor.
Virtual machines are a new instance type supported by lxd alongside containers.
One comes pre configured in lxd called images.
It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using linux containers instead.
Lxd 4 0 is the third lts release for lxd and will be supported for 5 years until june 2025.
It provides secure system containers based on the lxc functionality within the linux kernel and virtual machines via qemu.
The stable release of lxd the machine container hypervisor is now available.
Lxc linux containers is an operating system level virtualization method for running multiple isolated linux systems containers on a control host using a single linux kernel.
Lxd is a next generation system container manager.
For juju users lxd makes it easy to create a cloud in your laptop.
Lxd has two parts the daemon the lxd binary and the client the lxc binary.
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.
