--- 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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[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Bitbucket ](https://www.g2.com/products/bitbucket/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Elasticsearch ](https://www.g2.com/products/elastic-elasticsearch/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") MariaDB ](https://www.g2.com/products/mariadb/reviews) Show More ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/5/2022 "Canonical LXD" 4/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? LXD provides support for system containers and virtual machines. When running a system container, LXD simulates a virtual version of an entire operating system. To do this, it uses the functionality provided by the kernel running on the host system. When running a virtual machine, LXD uses the host system's hardware, but the virtual machine provides the kernel. Therefore, virtual machines can be used to run, for example, a different operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? LXD can also be used with other platforms and tools, like Ansible, Juju, MAAS, Terraform, and more. Self-service, remote Windows, CentOS, ESXi, and Ubuntu on real servers turn your data center into a bare-metal cloud.MAAS integrates with LXD to provide easy creation of virtual machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? Secure by design (through unprivileged containers, resource restrictions, authentication) Intuitive (with a simple, clear API and crisp command line experience) Scalable (from containers on your laptop to clusters of thousands of compute nodes) Event-based (providing logging, operation, and lifecycle events) Remote usage (same API used for local and network access) Project support (as a way to categorize sets of images and profiles) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ahmed S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ahmed S.") AS Ahmed S. Infrastructure Team Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/25/2021 "The flexibility of deploying containers" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? The ease of deploying a container in just few simple steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? There is a problem in Lxd as this software has no pqckage in the apt of debian or ubuntu and you need to install it with snap and this will put layer of file system that you don't need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? Main problem that I need a software which can deploy a container with easy setting no complex things to do , and I found thag lxd is straightforward container manager as you can deploy , destroy, attach devices , deattch them , storage management. Of course all of these things made my life easier when deploy a container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sudhanshu S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sudhanshu S.") SS Sudhanshu S. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/14/2021 "Containerization using Canonical LXD" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? CoreAPI: which is very scalable, event-based, and has excellent product support. Backup And Restore: All objects are managed by LXD and using CRUI, we can do live migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? It cannot be integrated with K8s, Jenkins, public cloud technology stacks. Not very popular like docker, so not too many discussions are available at StackOverflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Canonical LXD: If you wish to do an OS virtualization, then Canonical LXD will be a worthy choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? We are re-utilizing our existing hardware to set up Operating System Virtualization for setting up a private cloud, integrating with our current OpenStack, which our application teams can leverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/4/2021 "The simplest and usefully way to start with containers" 5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? Easy of use, minimal resource requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? Lack of an integrated web management view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? Web hosting is cheaper and easier to manage in our servers now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mike B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mike B.") MB Mike B. C-Level Executive / Platform Architect / Advisor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/29/2019 "Middle ground for those who need monolithic systems with the performance of containers" 4/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? High performance due to running in LXC (Linux Containers), but for single system installs. Compatible with existing Vagrant box workflow via vagrant-lxd provider (and can be coupled without a cloud provider such as vagrant-digitalocean for a high performance local dev that can match affordable staging and production environments and can even spin them up), or via lxdock (less robust and not well maintained anymore). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? Setup can be difficult to newcomers, Snap version available for non-Ubuntu distros seems to have some issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? Avoiding the dreaded "It works on my local!" without switching team to a multi-container Docker setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Pablo S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pablo S.") PS Pablo S. Owner Computer & Network Security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/1/2018 "Excellent" 5/5 What do you like best about Canonical LXD? optimization in the use of resources of the server, for the company it is important to be able to take full advantage of a server, without falling into underutilization. It is the software that occupies less resources, very close to the hardware, easy to configure, but it lacks a graphical interface for its administration. In our case we use it with high network availability. I recommend this software 100%, because having powerful servers to offer robust architectures for business is an imperative for any team working within a company.I think that in the near future, the fact of passing a container running from a machine A to a machine B, will be easy to use and quite simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canonical LXD? sometimes the configurations are a bit complex and it lacks an administration and configuration interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Canonical LXD: The world need a gpahical interface for to manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canonical LXD solving and how is that benefiting you? Provide virtualization services for clients, It is not necessary to buy server hardware, it can be reused Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated 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. [ Ask about Canonical LXD ](https://www.g2.com/products/canonical-lxd/discussions/new) GU Guest User • Last activity 3 months ago Is LXD a hypervisor? 0 Upvotes 2 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-lxd-a-hypervisor) GU Guest User • Last activity 3 months ago Should I use LXC or LXD? 1 Upvote 3 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/should-i-use-lxc-or-lxd) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/canonical-lxd/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. 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