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Abhishek K.
AK
Senior Staff Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"LXC for startups"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

LXC being an open-source resource, it's convenient as we get a lot of usage/troubleshooting info on the internet. And has an interface familiar to developers working on top of Linux/Unix variants, which makes goto for engineers in startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

Maybe not as popular as K8s or Docker. It may be because it doesn't have as many pre-cooked flavours as things like K8s have. Or maybe people find it too technical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sabbir K.
SK
Assistant Manager, System Administration
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great technology for virtualisation"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

I'm using the lxc container for virtualisation since long and so far I liked it more then kvm/ libvert or any other virtualisation technology. Great tool. Hats off to the developers. Keep it up mates! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

Sometimes it gets tough to move containers but it's okay as the entire system is so much lighter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fahd R.
FR
DevOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Lead DevOps Engineer"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

Flexiblity to create new full fledged environments. Easy backup and restore using snapshots. Easy to move servers when required.

Better than containers if you want more than one process running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

Not a lot of community support apart from the official documents.

More use case specific images can help with faster setups with tighter control. For now there are only os images commonly found Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alexander V.
AV
Service Engineering Specialist (DevOps)
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Lxc containers are is a great on building micro-services"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

lxc helps me easily build and deploy microservice containers inside a linux servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

im not sure if lxc already have a console like management. but it is a good thing to have a UI console when managing the lxc container so i can easily click on some operations like scaling up and down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hussain N.
HN
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"LIke Docker for VMs"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

The ability to natively integrate with Ubuntu out of the box and then the familiar interface like docker was straightforward to grasp. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

The community is not that huge already, unlike docker. Niche issues may take a lot of time to debug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
UB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"lxc is easy to build and manage"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

easy to create container and performance good and stable and good when support for zfs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

network are quite difficulties to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avery P.
AP
Freelance Linux System Administrator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"LXC is a fantastic way to virtualize in a lean, efficient way."
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

It's an effective way to have more isolated virtual containers on a server than most other virtualization approaches. With the feel of a full OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

For my usage there has been nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Natarajasekhar b.
NB
Cybersecurity Engineer ( Opensource And Automation team)
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"its awesome and gives VM experience"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

Its a container act like a VM and give us fullest freedom to play around Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

It should have orchestration tool like kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose Manuel O.
JO
Sofware engineer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Working with Linux Containers in an easy way"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

LXC is the basis for most container engines very used today, such as Docker and Podman. From the point of performance and resource usage, working directly with this technology is a luxury to make the most of your machine's resources at the usage level. CPU and memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

At the first time, it may be a bit difficult to understand, but if you have worked with virtualization technologies, the learning curve is not difficult. However, improving the documentation could make this process easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ahmed S.
AS
Infrastructure Team Lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Flexibility Vs Difficultly"
What do you like best about Canonical LXC?

Lxc has a good engine for contanarizing, Simply you can make a container with any linux distro in just seconds .

Network management is very easy and you can manage it with just one file to configure it.

Resources management for CPU & Memory is good and it limit everything.

Forwarding traffic from outside world to the container is very easy and I do believe it can be handled without your interference.

Flexibility in cloning containers and taking snapshots with the existing configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical LXC?

Limiting the disk space per container is not the best thing in LXC , and creating container with specific partitioning format is not an easy task to do.

Lack of documentation for LXC and there is no updated guide to go through it . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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