🆚 LXC vs. OpenShift

Type

Containers and virtualization tool
Containers and virtualization 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

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The LXC containers and virtualization tool is 5 times more popular than OpenShift.
Total websites

Market share

Containers And Virtualization

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

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

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

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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