Docker Machine vs LXC

Overview

Docker Machine

Stacks430

Followers518

Votes12

LXC

Stacks116

Followers223

Votes19

GitHub Stars5.0K

Forks1.2K

Docker Machine vs LXC: What are the differences?

Developers describe Docker Machine as "Machine management for a container-centric world". Machine lets you create Docker hosts on your computer, on cloud providers, and inside your own data center. It creates servers, installs Docker on them, then configures the Docker client to talk to them. On the other hand, LXC is detailed as "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.

Docker Machine and LXC are primarily classified as "Container" and "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers" tools respectively.

Docker Machine and LXC are both open source tools. Docker Machine with 5.4K GitHub stars and 1.56K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than LXC with 2.66K GitHub stars and 797 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Docker Machine has a broader approval, being mentioned in 43 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to LXC, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Docker Machine	LXC
Machine lets you create Docker hosts on your computer, on cloud providers, and inside your own data center. It creates servers, installs Docker on them, then configures the Docker client to talk to them.	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.
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 5.0K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 1.2K
Stacks 430	Stacks 116
Followers 518	Followers 223
Votes 12	Votes 19
Pros & Cons
Pros 12 Easy docker hosts management	Pros 5 Easy to use 4 Lightweight 3 Good security 3 Simple and powerful 2 LGPL
Integrations
Docker	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Docker Machine, LXC?

Docker

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Rancher

Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.

Docker Compose

With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.

Docker Swarm

Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.

Tutum

Tutum lets developers easily manage and run lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. AWS-like control, Heroku-like ease. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale in Tutum.

Portainer

It is a universal container management tool. It works with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI. It allows you to manage containers without needing to know platform-specific code.

LXD

LXD isn't a rewrite of LXC, in fact it's building on top of LXC to provide a new, better user experience. Under the hood, LXD uses LXC through liblxc and its Go binding to create and manage the containers. It's basically an alternative to LXC's tools and distribution template system with the added features that come from being controllable over the network.

Codefresh

Automate and parallelize testing. Codefresh allows teams to spin up on-demand compositions to run unit and integration tests as part of the continuous integration process. Jenkins integration allows more complex pipelines.

CAST.AI

It is an AI-driven cloud optimization platform for Kubernetes. Instantly cut your cloud bill, prevent downtime, and 10X the power of DevOps.

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