LXD / Incus

System-container manager for running Linux distributions in lightweight VMs.

LXD provides image management, snapshots, networking, and storage on top of the LXC kernel container primitives. Unlike Docker (which runs a single application per container), LXD containers behave like full Linux systems with their own init and user space — useful for running multiple Linux distributions on a single host.

In 2023 the project forked into Incus, maintained by the Linux Containers community. Canonical continues to develop LXD.

License: AGPL-3.0

Category: Containers

Website: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/

Install

Debian/Ubuntu (Incus): sudo apt install incus
Snap (LXD):            sudo snap install lxd

Authors

Linux Containers community (Incus)
Canonical (LXD)

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