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harnessvslxd-dashboard

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

harnesslxd-dashboard
Score80/10043/100
Rank in category#3 of 28 in CI/CD#34 of 44 in Container Management
GitHub stars38 746348
Stars, last 30 days+319—
Stable releases, 12 months60
Latest releasev2.28.2 · 20 Apr 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoHack

Which one should you pick?

harness scores 80/100 against 43/100 for lxd-dashboard, so it is the safer default.

harness ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for lxd-dashboard.

If you want the quickest setup, harness is easier to run; lxd-dashboard needs more configuration.

harness is growing faster right now (+319 stars in 30 days).

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