LXC Alternatives

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watchtower

215 16,821 8.4 Go LXC VS watchtower

A process for automating Docker container base image updates.
lxd

29 3,952 9.9 Go LXC VS lxd

Discontinued Powerful system container and virtual machine manager [Moved to: https://github.com/canonical/lxd] (by lxc)
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apx

18 472 8.9 Go LXC VS apx

Apx is the Vanilla OS package manager. It’s meant to be simple to use, but also powerful with support to installing packages from multiple sources without altering the root filesystem.
Portainer

337 28,852 9.8 TypeScript LXC VS Portainer

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Docker Compose

386 32,367 9.6 Go LXC VS Docker Compose

Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
Docker Swarm

151 4,025 10.0 Markdown LXC VS Docker Swarm

Source repo for Docker's Documentation (by docker)
Docker

4 3,176 2.5 Go LXC VS Docker

Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data
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lxd

6 4,222 10.0 Go LXC VS lxd

Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
Dokku

181 25,975 9.9 Shell LXC VS Dokku

A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
Harbor

74 22,485 9.7 Go LXC VS Harbor

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
Habitus

0 1,328 0.0 Go LXC VS Habitus

A build flow tool for Docker.
biphrost-shell

1 0 7.5 Shell LXC VS biphrost-shell

Admin shell code for biphrost
Starter

0 303 3.0 Go LXC VS Starter

Helping you get started with containerized apps. (by cloud66-oss)
lxf

1 6 10.0 Python LXC VS lxf
barco

4 1,428 8.0 C LXC VS barco

Linux containers from scratch in C.
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LXD Moves into Canonical
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jul 2023

I hope this doesn't affect LXC negatively.
LXC and LXD share plenty of contributors.
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/graphs/contributors
I use an "unprivileged LXC container" setup on several Debian bullseye hosts. It works fantastic, and each LXC container feels like a real server.
Compare that to Docker's "one-container-one-process" philosophy, reinventing the wheel by awkwardly composing multiple containers.
Support for Android apps
2 projects | /r/vanillaos | 2 May 2023

There is an issue with lxc as stated here: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/4283 and https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/apx/issues/118
LXC & AD
1 project | /r/Proxmox | 17 Oct 2022

I'm currently attempting to enroll my Ubuntu (20.04) (Unprivileged) LXC hosts to my windows AD server but am having difficulty. I'm using SSSD and KRB5 to manage the user directory and authentication. Once joining the domain with realmd, all seems ok, I can use the id command, etc to lookup users and groups and the host appears in Windows Users and Computers. The issue I'm having is with authentication, I believe it to be related to this issue however I don't entirely understand the solution and can't seem to find much else on the matter (Note the method I'm using works fine on full VMs). Would anybody please be able to provide more clarity in layman's terms?
LXC and LXD: a different container story
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2022

I don't recall having to do any uid/gid fixup last time I made an unprivileged container. I did have to prepare the unprivileged host user, of course, by reserving a range of subordinate uids/gids (/etc/sub?id) and configuring a virtual network interface limit (/etc/lxc/lxc-usernet).
To create the container, I did this:
lxc-create -t download -n -- -d debian -r bullseye -a amd64
Note that this runs the 'download' template, which (IIRC) is better suited to unprivileged containers than the 'debian' template is. The 'download' template will list its available distros if you do this:
lxc-create -t download -n -- --list
Note that some versions of lxc-create may fail with a keyserver error because sks-keyservers.net died somewhat recently. Workaround: DOWNLOAD_KEYSERVER=hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com lxc-create
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/3894
Lxc container still gives Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: Operation not permitted after following graysky's edit of wiki
1 project | /r/archlinux | 1 Jan 2022

Found this issue and edited the config file of the lxc container:
How to - Create LXC containers FROM Docker and OCI images
2 projects | /r/LXD | 6 Nov 2021

and on this thread... an different approach is described
Finally joining the club
1 project | /r/Proxmox | 17 Mar 2021

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/1629#issuecomment-311379508
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