🆚 Kubernetes vs. LXC

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source container orchestration system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of machines.

It provides horizontal and vertical autoscaling, automated rollouts and rollbacks of application updates, service discovery and built-in load balancing, storage orchestration with persistent volumes, and self-healing capabilities.

LXC is a low-level Linux container runtime that provides operating-system-level virtualization through tools, templates, APIs, and language bindings for creating and managing system containers.

It uses Linux kernel features such as namespaces, cgroups, AppArmor, and seccomp isolation, supports unprivileged containers, live migration, multiple storage backends and network types, and includes image templates for distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Alpine.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Containers And Virtualization category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Containers And Virtualization category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Containers And Virtualization category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Containers And Virtualization category.
• 🥇 Most popular in India in the Containers And Virtualization category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Kubernetes technology profile
• Linux Foundation company profile

• LXC technology profile
• IBM company profile