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

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

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Post by seabrookmx »

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.

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

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Post by k_bx »

seabrookmx wrote: post #4

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.

Incus supports both qemu and lxc

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

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Post by kosinus »

seabrookmx wrote: post #4

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.

You can also start QEMU/KVM powered VMs with Incus, I assume that's also possible with IncusOS?

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

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Post by k_bx »

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

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

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Post by udev4096 »

leoedin wrote: post #8

I guess IncusOS (and Incus) achieve similar goals to ProxMox? Has anyone used both and have any opinions on how they perform?

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 (while in proxmox, you have to create templates all the time for VMs), 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

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

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Post by genshii »

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.

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