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How does Podman compare to LXD?

• mohanmcgeek 5y ago
  Application containers vs system containers. Lxd is a daemon for lxc, which last I checked was focused on creating system containers. This means it probably can't run OCI
• hda111 5y ago
  Both can run systemd in containers. Podman can be used for system containers. Podman can start containers without root privilege while LXD is a daemon that needs to run as root.
  • cassianoleal 5y ago
    LXD is, but LXC can run rootless containers just as well. In this sense, it's similar to running the Podman-compose daemon as root, but rootless containers on it.
• zekrioca 5y ago
  One can create a cluster of system containers with LXD, as opposed to local application containers (podman).