Concourse vs LXC: What are the differences?
What is Concourse? Pipeline-based CI system written in Go. Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control.
What is LXC? Linux containers. LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.
Concourse and LXC are primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" and "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers" tools respectively.
Concourse and LXC are both open source tools. It seems that Concourse with 3.99K GitHub stars and 482 forks on GitHub has more adoption than LXC with 2.66K GitHub stars and 797 GitHub forks.
DigitalOcean, Starbucks, and HelloFresh are some of the popular companies that use Concourse, whereas LXC is used by Robinhood, Wiser., and Platform.sh. Concourse has a broader approval, being mentioned in 18 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to LXC, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.