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relatedlinks: '[Run system containers with LXD](https://ubuntu.com/lxd), [Open source for beginners: setting up your dev environment with LXD](https://ubuntu.com/blog/open-source-for-beginners-dev-environment-with-lxd)'
---

# LXD

LXD (<a href="#" title="Listen" onclick="document.getElementById('player').play();return false;">`[lɛks'di:]`&#128264;</a>) is a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

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## Security

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## Project and community

LXD is free software and developed under the [Apache 2 license](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
It’s an open source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.

The LXD project is sponsored by [Canonical Ltd](https://www.canonical.com).

- [Code of Conduct](https://ubuntu.com/community/ethos/code-of-conduct)
- [Contribute to the project](contributing.md)
- [Release announcements](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/lxd/news/)
- [Release tarballs](https://github.com/canonical/lxd/releases/)
- [Get support](support.md)
- [Watch tutorials and announcements on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/LXDvideos)
- [Discuss on IRC](https://web.libera.chat/#lxd) (see [Getting started with IRC](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/getting-started-with-irc/37907) if needed)
- [Ask and answer questions on the forum](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/lxd/)

```{toctree}
:hidden:
:titlesonly:

self
getting_started
security
instances
images
storage
networks
clustering
operation
restapi_landing
internals
external_resources
```