LXD is a container "hypervisor" and a new user experience for LXC. Specifically, it's made of three components: A system-wide daemon (lxd) A command line client (lxc) An OpenStack Nova plugin (nova-compute-lxd) The daemon exports a REST API both locally and if enabled, over the network. The command line tool is designed to be a very simple, yet very powerful tool to manage all your containers. It can handle connect to multiple container hosts and easily give you an overview of all the containers on your network, let you create some more where you want them and even move them around while they're running. The OpenStack plugin then allows you to use your lxd hosts as compute nodes, running workloads on containers rather than virtual machines. The LXD project was founded and is currently led by Canonical Ltd and Ubuntu with contributions from a range of other companies and individual contributors.
Mirantis Container Cloud is a secure container platform for any cloud. It provides organizations with unmatched speed to ship code quicker on public clouds and on-premise infrastructure. Mirantis Container Cloud is the simplest method for building and managing Kubernetes clusters anywhere with one consistent cloud experience for developers and operators across public and private clouds. It enables full application and DevOps portability.
Mirantis Container Cloud simplifies infrastructure management by allowing you to deploy clusters anywhere on demand with one reliable connection, minimizing operational costs and increasing developer productivity. Mirantis Container Cloud is a clear solution for the world's most regulated businesses, with end-to-end security enabled by default and the highest level of FIPS 140-2 and DISA STIG compliance. Developers can quickly ship code by creating, monitoring, and managing their own Kubernetes clusters within pre-established boundaries using the self-service portal.
Mirantis Container Cloud Features
Mirantis Container Cloud has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:
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Run apps anywhere: Your containerized workloads and configurations are very portable due to the ability to operate clusters anywhere. A truly open experience that prevents lock-in.
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Continuous updates: Maintain availability of management and child clusters while being completely up to date with platform patches and pertinent dependencies through careful testing and validation.
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Multi cloud and hybrid: Container Cloud has been optimized and tested for easy cluster management on OpenStack, VMware, bare metal, and leading cloud providers such as AWS and Azure.
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Self-service: Reduce time to market by giving developers the ability to quickly build up their own development and test clusters on any cloud.
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Touchless operations: Software updates are applied continuously and without downtime thanks to automated lifecycle management. Get the new features you need faster and with less risk.
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Single pane of glass: Multiple clouds and infrastructure platforms can be integrated into operations through a single point. The built-in Stacklight allows you to monitor anything in your multi-cloud estate.
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Full stack management: Manage the whole Kubernetes stack and related technologies on a single platform, including the operating system, container runtime, networking, storage, service mesh, image registry, and more.
Reviews from Real Users
Mirantis Container Cloud stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its deployment of images and the portability of its containers. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:
Cristina C., Test Architect at a tech services company, writes of the solution, “The idea that you can configure an image, deploy it, and it can be reused and redeployed with the same setup over and over again is a valuable feature.
A DevOps Engineer at a tech services company, notes, “I like that Mirantis’ main products of containers are very portable. Any possible issues, problems, or troubles are fixed with improvements of the platform itself. Any constraints that Mirantis [has], have been fixed with other products or features that Mirantis provides.”
