🆚 LXC vs. OpenShift

Type

Container management tool
Container management tool

About

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.

Red Hat OpenShift is a containerization platform to develop, modernize, and deploy applications at scale.

Headquarters

Armonk, New York, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Cloud $0.076/hour on 4vCPU, 3 year contract
Self-managed Custom

Categories

Containers › Rank #3
Containers › Rank #5

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The LXC container management tool is 6 times more popular than OpenShift.
Total websites

Market share

Containers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

LXC is more popular in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, while OpenShift is more popular in the United States.
France
United States
Netherlands
Switzerland
Australia
Germany
Belgium
Russia
Canada
Italy

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

LXC is more popular than OpenShift in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Portal Sites
General News
Motor Vehicles
Finance/Banking
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#10,561
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Name
Rank
#20,888
#60,511
#440,808
#528,419
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See also

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