r/LXD

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LXD - The Linux container hypervisor Fast, dense & secure container management for LXC

r/LXD

LXD is a container "hypervisor" & new user experience for LXC. It's made of 3 components: * The system-wide daemon (lxd) exports a REST API locally & if enabled, remotely. * The command line client (lxc) is a simple, powerful tool to manage LXC containers, enabling management of local/remote container hosts. www.linuxcontainers.org

Created Sep 9, 2011

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The LXD sub-reddit is NOT intended to be a support forum!

To ask LXD support related questions please visit the LXD Discuss Forum to communicate with Devs & others regarding support questions.

We feel its important to keep Support related Questions and Answers in one location. Thank you.

What is LXD's Relationship with LXC.. LXD isn't a rewrite of LXC, in fact it's building on top of LXC to provide a new, better user experience. Under the hood, LXD uses LXC through liblxc and its Go binding to create and manage the containers.

It's basically an alternative to LXC's tools and distribution template system with the added features that come from being controllable over the network.

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