Canonical LXD vs Flockport comparison

Canonical and Flockport are both solutions in the Container Virtualization category. Canonical is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0, while Flockport is ranked #4. Canonical holds a 30.0% mindshare in CV, compared to Flockport’s 15.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Canonical users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Categories and Ranking

Canonical LXD

Ranking in Container Virtualization

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Flockport

Ranking in Container Virtualization

4th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Container Virtualization category, the mindshare of Canonical LXD is 30.0%, down from 37.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Flockport is 15.5%, up from 12.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Virtualization Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Canonical LXD	30.0%
Flockport	15.5%
Other	54.5%

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Siddhit-Renake

Technology Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Container operations have become more efficient with reduced manual intervention and reliable performance

Canonical LXD's snapshotting system is not being used. The REST API in Canonical LXD is not being utilized. Direct management using the online interface is preferred because REST API integration is required for some application-level integration, and Canonical LXD is being used as an infrastructure component rather than requiring REST API communication. A standard interface is sufficient for administering Canonical LXD container. Device pass-through has not been used. Migration features of Canonical LXD are not being utilized. Administration through a graphical user interface or graphical-based administration would definitely help for managing Canonical LXD. Currently, only command-line tool features are available, but if optical tools are introduced, that would also help. More detailed documentation in terms of deployment and manageability of Canonical LXD container is needed.

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Canonical LXD?

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Canonical LXD is used as a technology for spinning containers for infrastructure requirements. Canonical LXD is deployed in my organization on an on-premise cloud and private cloud. It helps to mai...

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What advice do you have for others considering Canonical LXD?

Canonical LXD is not sold separately. It comes as part of the operating system license or a cloud solution license, so it is not an independent product. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.

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Overview

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.

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