Miona Aleksic

LXD multi-user feature allows for secure development in shared development environments. Learn more about the feature in this blog.

The stable release of LXD, the system container and VM manager, is now available. LXD 5.0 is the fourth LTS release for LXD, and will be supported for 5 years, until June 2027.

When talking about containers, a common confusion for potential users of LXD is that LXD is an alternative to Docker or Kubernetes. However, LXD and Docker are not competing container technologies, and they tend to serve completely different purposes. In this blog, we’ll briefly discuss the differences and the suitable use cases for both.

This blog explains what are Linux containers, how they differ from application containers, and when should you use them.