Awesome LXC

A curated list of awesome LXC and LXD tools, libraries and related projects.

Official projects

• lxc: Linux Containers
• lxd: Daemon based on liblxc offering a REST API to manage containers
• lxcfs: FUSE filesystem for LXC

Interesting reads

• Comparing LXD vs. LXC
• Stéphane Graber's LXD 2.0 blog post series

Libraries

• go-lxc: Go bindings for liblxc
• ruby-lxc: Ruby bindings for liblxc
• python2-lxc: Python 2.7 binding for liblxc (similar to the better supported python3-lxc)
• python3-lxc: Python 3.x binding for liblxc
• php-lxd a php binding library for lxd

Tools

• distrobuilder: System container image builder for LXC and LXD
• lxd-github-actions: Scripts to run Github Actions runners inside of LXD
• lxd-compose: docker-compose but for LXD

UI

• lxdui: LXDUI is a web UI for the native Linux container technology LXD/LXC
• LxdMosaic: PHP-based UI for multiple LXD service
• lxd-manager-vue-dashboard: LXDManager Vue-based Dashboard
• lxd-api-gateway: Python-based LXDManager backend for LXDManager Dashboard
• lxd-webui: AngularJS-based UI for LXD

Related projects

• vagrant-lxc: LXC provider for Vagrant
• lxdock: Build and orchestrate your development environments with LXD - a.k.a. Vagrant is Too Heavy™
• mi-lxc: Mini-Internet using LXC for practical works
• kubernetes-lxd: A step-by-step guide to get kubernetes running inside an LXC container
• lxe: Kubernetes CRI shim for LXD
• bravetools: An end-to-end System Container management platform