Azure Container Instances vs. Linux Containers LXD

Azure Container Instances

18 Reviews and Ratings

Linux Containers LXD

3 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Container Instances	Score5.9 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Azure Container Instances allows developers to focus on building apps without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just the application, in a container, running in the cloud.	$0.01 Per GB Per Hour
LXD	Score9.9 out of 10	N/A	LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager. It offers a unified user experience around full Linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines. LXD is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions. It supports various use cases, with support for different storage backends and network types and the option to install on hardware ranging from an individual laptop or cloud instance to a full server rack. LXD is written in Go. It is free software…	N/A

Pricing

Azure Container Instances

LXD

Memory: $0.00533
Per GB Per Hour
vCPU: $0.04860
Per vCPU

No answers on this topic

Pricing Offerings
Azure Container Instances	LXD
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	Azure Container Instances	LXD
Small Businesses	Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Score9.4 out of 10	Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Score9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Score8.5 out of 10	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Score8.5 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score7.4 out of 10	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score7.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure Container Instances	LXD
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Container Instances	LXD
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source Linux Containers LXD works very well when you, as a software developer using Linux, need to spin up a development environment to build and work on a specific piece of software. For example, you need to build some software that is tested and developed target Ubuntu 18.04. You're able to quickly create a container for Ubuntu 18.04 and log into it to run commands and build your software. This is easier to do than setting a virtual machine - e.g - via Virtual Box, but is a lot clunkier than doing it via Docker containers which give you a much more flexible configuration of the environment and are easier to start, stop, connect and share with other developers. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source GIT repositories. Authentication servers. Application instances. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source Ease of use. Copying containers from one machine to another. Creation of containers with config files similar to Docker. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source Linux Containers LXD feels like a more primitive version of docker, docker-compose and similar projects from the docker ecosystem. The Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml methods of specifying a container setup, as well as the network and file configurations afforded by Docker make working with containers much easier and more reproducible than with Linux Containers LXD. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source Save workload. Save time. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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