--- title: Canonical LXD Reviews meta\_title: 'Canonical LXD Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Canonical LXD works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 16 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # Canonical LXD Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Canonical LXD but has limited features. Are you part of the Canonical LXD team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Canonical LXD is a next generation system container manager.It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API. * * * Seller [Canonical Ltd.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/canonical-ltd) Discussions [Canonical LXD Community](https://www.g2.com/products/canonical-lxd/discuss) Overview by Gloria Quintanilla Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![DigitalOcean](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "DigitalOcean") DigitalOcean 4.6/5(756) ](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) [ ![Akamai Cloud Computing](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Akamai Cloud Computing") Akamai Cloud Computing 4.6/5(406) ](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-cloud-computing/reviews) [ ![Red Hat OpenShift](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat OpenShift") Red Hat OpenShift 4.5/5(306) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/canonical-lxd/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 16 real user reviews. 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System Administrator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/1/2026 "Lightweight, VM-Like Isolation That Makes Multi-Tenant Dev Environments Easy" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? The biggest advantage for me is how lightweight it is while still giving strong isolation, almost like a VM. We’re running multiple dev and project containers on the same hosts, and it handles that without much overhead. It fits really well for our setup where each developer has their own container and projects are separated. Spinning up a new container is quick, and with a few scripts in place we can get a full environment ready in minutes, which saves a lot of time. OVN networking and proxy devices are also pretty flexible once configured, so routing traffic and exposing services works fine. Overall it makes managing a multi tenant setup much easier without going full VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? Some parts still feel a bit rough in day to day use, especially around networking. OVN itself is fine, but ACLs can silently block traffic and it’s not always clear what went wrong. We spent a fair amount of time debugging things like SSH egress and basic connectivity issues. Permissions with mounted directories can also be confusing. The UID mapping part isn’t very intuitive, so you end up manually fixing ownership on the host, and it’s easy to mess up if you’re not used to it. SELinux relabeling is another small thing that gets missed sometimes. Port forwarding with proxy devices also feels a bit manual, especially when you have multiple containers. We ended up writing scripts to handle that and keep things consistent. Once everything is set up it runs well, but getting there definitely requires some experience, it’s not something that works perfectly out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? It mainly helps us run multiple dev and project environments on the same hardware without things clashing. Each developer and project has its own container, so there are no dependency conflicts or “works on my machine” problems anymore. Isolation is a big benefit too. If something breaks in one project, it doesn’t affect anything else. We can just restore a snapshot or rebuild the container instead of fixing a shared system. Provisioning is much faster now as well. With a few scripts in place, spinning up a new dev or project container takes minutes instead of hours. OVN networking adds another layer of separation, so each container only talks to the services it actually needs. Overall it lets us run this kind of setup without needing a lot more servers or extra ops overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Hinal S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hinal S.") HS Hinal S. Search Engine Optimization Executive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/24/2023 "Best environment to work virtually" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? I'm really impressed by Canonical LXD! It's like a supercharged way to manage containers that feels as easy as using virtual machines. They've got these ready-to-go setups for lots of types of Linux, and their simple system makes it all work. Big shoutout to the tech that makes it tick, too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? Learning curve was a bit steeper than expected but once I got the hang of it, Canonical LXD proved its worth! Also, keep an eye on system resources it's efficient, but might need a beefier setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? By utilizing Canonical LXD for our container engine, our remote workforce collaborates seamlessly, resulting in enhanced ROI and boosted productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sindhura K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sindhura K.") SK Sindhura K. Associate Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/22/2023 "Canonical LXD the best" 5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? They run a full operating system inside them, you can run any type of workload, and you manage them exactly as you would a virtual or a physical machine. Run as easily as possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? Nothing all the thinks which is using is the best gui ever I have been working with hope the review will go much better and every one need to use this cononical LXD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? They run a full operating system inside them, you can run any type of workload, and you manage them exactly as you would a virtual or a physical machine.its acts like a physical machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nitish r.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nitish r.") NR Nitish r. Benefits Analyst Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/28/2023 "Best to use in virtual machines" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? I used to manage linux container,and it can be used with minimal resources, while running it will use system hardware so that this will make it more smooth and fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? Its web management view need to upgrade as per latest scenario, lack of automation in process. Everytime it will redirect you to mapping to run from a source. Over all need to implement more tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? I used canonical lxd to manage linux container as well as other os while integrating gpt in the process. Monitoring the web management view while progress for gpt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/29/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shwetank D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shwetank D.") SD Shwetank D. Lead Software Engineer - AVP Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/4/2023 "Good Product for Multi-Environment workloads" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? It's beneficial for workloads that rely on host operating systems like containers and need robust execution irrespective of the platform in order to be platform-independent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? The repackaging of the ISO file in the case of the Windows Virtual Machine needs a distrobuilder, which is a cumbersome process compared to the Linux virtual machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? It helped set up services running on multiple containers ( in some cases VMs in case of binding regulatory policies for some banking workloads), which require minimal setup ( at least on Linux Kernels). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ayush S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ayush S.") AS Ayush S. Lead DevOps Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/5/2023 "Efficient Container Management and Virtualization with Canonical LXD" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? lightweight approach to container management and offers web-based graphical interface (LXDUI) that simplify container creation, configuration, and management and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? The only thing which can be improved with time is the limitation for users with highly complex and large-scale container deployments and managing those resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? Canonical LXD helps us with Efficient resource utilization. With this it assists us in cost optimizations and also provides better network security between the containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Harshal G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harshal G.") HG Harshal G. Software Engineer 2 (Embedded Linux) Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/6/2023 "Works really good for development environments" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? Ability to create VM or container with same utility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? No built in gui, it is being developed but so far it is not released. Too complicated for simple setup like redirecting usb devices or ports or mapping files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? I use lxd mainly for development environments with different dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arcko D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arcko D.") AD Arcko D. Founder & General Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/29/2023 "Easy way to run any linux distribution" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? Easy to manage and run linux in a managed way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? No updated version seems released in project home page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? Help me a lot with container management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Scott T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Scott T.") ST Scott T. Retired Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/17/2022 "Excellent resource & Nice Lightweight Containers" 5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? LXD containers are a lean, efficient and secure containerization system that is easy to manage. I use around 30 LXD containers and about 5 LXD VMs in my home lab. The lightweight nature of them makes it easy to host. I very much like the LXD forum for getting my questions answered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? I wish that there were more coverage of offering PCI bus and USB container resources through LXD and LXD VMs. It seems that my YouTube channel is a major source of this information (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxZPAzkw5Bj-j4vihnjpCVQ). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Canonical LXD: Be prepared to migrate off traditional VMs and be prepared for a bit of a learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? Really, the lightweight nature of LXD containers helps minimize resource usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/22/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Networking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Networking") AC Verified User in Computer Networking Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/12/2023 "Nice solution to manage virtual machines/containers on Ubuntu Linux" 4/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? Canonical LXD is a nice and lightweight solution to manage Linux Containers or VMs. It is easy to install with the Ubuntu package manager and offers a fast and reliable way to use machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? LXD is a very powerful tool but not so intuitive for some users as it is a CLI-only based tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? It is lightweight and runs in the background on Ubuntu PCs/servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Canonical LXD? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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