Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to LXC

LXC

LXC by Linuxcontainers.org is a set of tools, templates, library and language bindings. It's pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel.

As LXC is an open source project, you can find more open source alternatives and stats on LibHunt.

The top open-source alternatives to LXC are QEMU, oVirt, and containerd. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

QEMU Landing Page
1

QEMU

QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 3 social mentions
oVirt Landing Page
2

oVirt

oVirt is a virtualization management application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions
containerd Landing Page
3

containerd

An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage #Storage 45 social mentions
Xen Landing Page
4

Xen

Xen Project: Open Source Hypervisor, High Performance Clouds, Free Software, Open Source Virtualization, Open Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Mobile Virtualization, Embedded Virtualization.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 10 social mentions
Vagrant Landing Page
5

Vagrant

Tool for building and maintaining portable virtual development environments.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtual Machine Management #IT Automation #Development Tools 4 social mentions
Xen Orchestra Landing Page
6

Xen Orchestra

A complete web UI for controlling a XenServer or Xen infrastructure.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 3 social mentions
virt-manager Landing Page
7

virt-manager

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 64 social mentions
Podman Landing Page
8

Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Productivity #OS & Utilities 101 social mentions
xhypervisor Landing Page
9

xhypervisor

Xvisor® is an open-source type-1 hypervisor, which aims at providing a monolithic...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform
OpenStack Landing Page
10

OpenStack

OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 2 social mentions
UTM Landing Page
11

UTM

Run virtual machines on iOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Apple 83 social mentions
Amazon ECS Landing Page
12

Amazon ECS

Amazon EC2 Container Service is a highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker containers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Cloud Computing 46 social mentions