# fgrehm/vagrant-lxc

LXC provider for Vagrant

Repository: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vagrant-lxc
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-11-24T23:41:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4937, "days_push": 1378, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1192, forks 174 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:56.259217+00:00)

## What it is
A Vagrant plugin that adds an LXC provider, letting Vagrant manage and provision Linux Containers as an alternative to VirtualBox on Linux hosts. It supports the standard Vagrant workflow, port forwarding via redir, and private networking via pipework.

## Use cases
- run vagrant boxes with lxc instead of virtualbox
- provision linux containers with vagrant
- lightweight vagrant provider for linux hosts
- manage dev environments using lxc containers
- port forwarding for vagrant lxc containers

## When to choose
- you use Vagrant on a Linux host and prefer LXC containers over VirtualBox VMs
- you want faster, lighter-weight development environments than full VMs
- you need the standard Vagrant workflow (up, ssh, provision) backed by LXC

## When to avoid
- the project is archived and unmaintained, so bugs and compatibility issues won't be fixed
- you are on macOS or Windows hosts without extra setup
- you need actively maintained container tooling - prefer Docker, Podman, or newer Vagrant providers
- you rely on prebuilt base boxes from Atlas, which are stale

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: container-runtime, developer-tools, configuration-management
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: vagrant, lxc, linux-containers, vagrant-plugin, virtualization, archived, containers, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- fgrehm/vagrant-lxc (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:56.259217+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:22:29.830388+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:56.259217+00:00, sha 687d07c4374d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.