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Top 4 Go LXC Projects
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LXD is a modern, secure, and powerful tool that provides a unified experience for running and managing containers or virtual machines. Visit LXD Official Site for more information.
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Stream
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amicontained
Container introspection tool. Find out what container runtime is being used as well as features available.
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Project mention: Beyond Docker - A DevOps Engineer's Guide to Container Alternatives | dev.to | 2024-12-26
Working with legacy applications that needed full system access taught me that a different way to do containerization is by using LXC/LXD. The focus in system containers, rather than application containers, can be thought of like a light VM rather than what most consider the typical container.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Go LXC discussion
Go LXC related posts
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Ubuntu CLI cheat sheet
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Canonical re-licenses LXD under AGPLv3, slaps a CLA on top
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Vm and hypervisor
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LXD Has been moved to Canonical
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LXD is now under Canonical
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LXD Has been moved to Canonical
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LXD is now under Canonical
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Index
What are some of the best open-source LXC projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | lxd | 4,535 |
| 2 | amicontained | 1,036 |
| 3 | distrobuilder | 717 |
| 4 | go-lxc | 448 |
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