Container management made easier with LXD-UI
Control Your Containers
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LXC, a command-line manager for Linux containers, is quite tricky to use. Enter the LXD-UI web interface to make life easier.
Linux Containers (LXC) is an operating-system-level virtualization method that uses containers that run in isolation from each other on a Linux system. The system that provides the containers is referred to as the host, and the systems operating in the containers are known as guests. All guests use the host's kernel, which makes LXC very efficient. However, only systems that work with the same kernel can be virtualized in this way. For example, you cannot start Windows in LXC. LXC is managed entirely at the command line.
The LXD container manager was developed to help admins handle LXC's complexity. LXD is based on the LXC components and extends them to include simple tools for administration, as well as tools for the command line. LXD-UI [1], an easy-to-use graphical web front end [2], lets you quickly and easily set up and manage LXC.
Additionally, LXD-UI helps you to configure the entire LXD system, including virtual networks, storage pools, and default container settings. The bottom line is that LXD-UI considerably simplifies tasks related to Linux containers.
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