It’s image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.

It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead. LXD is a next generation system container manager. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers. LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Kali images are available on the image server for LXC and LXD and can easily be launched either in LXD using the “images:” image server or in LXC using the “lxc-download” template. Linux containers provide features like snapshots and freezing which comes in very handy when developing or testing software. Without the overhead of virtual machines.ĭocker is the preferred solution for applications whilst LXC/LXD are preferred for entire systems.

provide isolated environments for development or testing activities.

run Kali Linux within other Linux distributions.

Kali Linux containers are the ideal solution to

Unprivileged Kali LXC container on Kali host.

Privileged Kali LXC container on Kali host.

Command line Kali LXD container on Ubuntu host.

Kali linux container