canonical/lxd
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 22
- age_days: 4320
- days_rel: 9
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 22
Adoption not part of the score
4816 stars · 1043 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager that provides a unified, cloud-like experience for running full Linux systems in LXC containers or KVM virtual machines. It exposes a powerful REST API and CLI, scales from a single machine to full clusters, and includes features like live migration, snapshots, projects, and storage/network management.
Use cases
- run full Linux system containers on a single server
- manage KVM virtual machines alongside containers
- build a small private cloud with a REST API
- set up a highly available container cluster across a data center rack
- spin up disposable dev environments from distribution images in seconds
- manage storage pools, networks, and instance snapshots centrally
- provision test machines for MAAS or CI pipelines
When to choose
- you want lightweight VMs and system containers with minimal overhead on Linux
- you need to scale from one instance to a clustered production deployment
- you prefer an image-based workflow with a simple CLI and REST API
- you want a self-hosted private-cloud alternative with live migration and clustering
When to avoid
- you need application-level container orchestration like Kubernetes workloads
- your daemon host is not Linux (only the lxc client runs on macOS/Windows)
- you require Windows or macOS containers rather than Linux guests
- you want Docker-style immutable application images rather than full system instances
Facets
application · maturity stable
container-runtime api-framework cli deployment networking self-hosted cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code self-hosted go cli self-hosted lxc system-containers virtual-machines kvm rest-api clustering live-migration snapshots criu image-management private-cloud virtualization containers devops linux web-server
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/canonical/lxd · fetched 2026-08-28 · 707f4ed4e387
- homepage: https://canonical.com/lxd · fetched 2026-08-29 · d5f523731757
- site_page: https://canonical.com/maas/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · bc7664ac6338
- site_page: https://canonical.com/microstack/docs/single-node · fetched 2026-08-29 · e132e9b2be0a
- site_page: https://canonical.com/microk8s/docs/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4cb1ea6f65e4
- site_page: https://canonical.com/juju/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 657a866a1942
- site_page: https://canonical.com/lxd/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · 09e89f241e4b
- site_page: https://canonical.com/lxd/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · cbbc4621496b
- site_page: https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon · fetched 2026-08-29 · 61fee91e61d0
- site_page: https://canonical.com/maas/tutorials/build-a-maas-and-lxd-environment-in-30-minutes-with-multipass-on-ubuntu · fetched 2026-08-29 · ddf3f3c2b49d
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| canonical/lxd | main | 99 |
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