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Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/
54•_kb•1w ago

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kouskoush•1h ago
It's software for a private cloud and can convert your legacy VMWare into IncusOS.
seabrookmx•57m ago
Not _technically_ a hypervisor since these are Linux (system) containers and use the same cgroup magic under the hood as docker/containerd.

But this is definitely neat. I've found Incus quite handy for development environments, and a good compliment to docker.

k_bx•51m ago
Incus supports both qemu and lxc
kosinus•50m ago
You can also start QEMU/KVM powered VMs with Incus, I assume that's also possible with IncusOS?
udev4096•15m ago
It's a lot more than that. Clustering, storage drivers, networking, etc makes up a whole virtual machine manager. It never says it's a hypervisor, it's a VMM as outlined on it's github: "Powerful system container and virtual machine manager"
k_bx•49m ago
Really excited to try this out. I have a fleet of containers on ubuntu + incus. Not only does this do ZFS optimization, I look forward having easy container optimized backup, live cluster migration (to a different machine without downtime) and so much more.

I use Proxmox on fat servers, but for homelab-like setup Incus OS seems more like a sweet spot

leoedin•41m ago
I guess IncusOS (and Incus) achieve similar goals to ProxMox? Has anyone used both and have any opinions on how they perform?
udev4096•23m ago
I have switched to incus and it's really great. It's lightweight, has a working terraform provider, easy-to-use cli, pre-built images (LXC and VM) of major distros, runs on any distro (on proxmox, you're stuck with debian), clustering is nice, supports bunch of storage drivers (dir, btrfs, ceph, zfs), simple web UI and active community. The project leader is also very active and helpful while in proxmox, it's a little unresponsive. You can even install `incus-base` package which only contains LXC specific components for only running LXC containers.

I have noticed incus has better security configs by default. For instance, all pre-built images come with secureboot enabled and there are ACLs which are easy to configure for fine-grained network rules. The only downside I feel like is lack of something like PBS

genshii•15m ago
I used Proxmox for years to run a fairly comprehensive homelab, and a few months ago replaced the entire thing with Incus (on a debian host, haven't tried IncusOS yet). Incus is amazing and it makes so many things so much easier compared to Proxmox.

One thing in particular is permissions in unprivileged containers. In Proxmox, you have to do a bunch of somewhat confusing ID mapping. In Incus, it's as simple as setting "shift=true".

Also the profile system in Incus is really powerful and allowed me to deduplicate a ton of config.

udev4096•14m ago
Profiles are really great. It's like cloud-init on steroids
aborsy•2m ago
Incus is more comparable to LXD than proxmox. IncusOS is different though.

LXD containers also are unprivileged by default.

dizhn•1m ago
In case there might be people who are not familiar with Incus, it was forked from LXD to keep it open source. It's very good software.

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Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor

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