🆚 LXC vs. OpenStack
- 📈 OpenStack is much more popular than LXC.
- 🌍 OpenStack is more popular in Australia, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
- 🌍 LXC is more popular in France and Russia.
LXC
OpenStackType
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.
OpenStack is an open-source cloud platform that manages compute, storage, and networking resources for building public and private cloud infrastructure.
It provides modular services for virtual machines, networking, identity management, orchestration, and bare metal provisioning.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Containers And Virtualization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Containers And Virtualization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Containers And Virtualization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Containers And Virtualization category.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,009,087 websites.
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