Can I use Kata containers with LXD?

I focus on security, and I see Kata containers that provide container work outside system kernel instead it use other kernel inside lightweight VM that make it much secure the other containers runtimes

Can I use it with LXD?
Because LXD user-friendly and provide a way to work with containers like virtual machines

No, LXD either supports full virtual machines (qemu) or it supports containers (lxc).

Kata is a weird in-between which isn’t particularly interesting to us as it breaks most of the nice features of containers while not providing a full virtual environment.

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You can lose some/most features for better security

If you want virtualization, that’s okay, LXD does it too. Just create a LXD VM.