Incus v0.1 released (community fork of LXD)

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19 points·radlad··4 comments

Aw man, my pulse quickened when I saw this headline, then went back to normal when I saw there were zero comments.

(I was hoping for some initial "I tried it and blah blah blah" takes, but I guess I will have to kick the tires myself.)

At this point it would probably be the same thing as LXD. This is mostly an openSUSE effort and they had rpm packages (i.e not snap) for LXD for a while already.

Yes, definitely — or I mean, hopefully.

I was hoping to find "I 'upgraded' to Incus and nothing is different AFAICT and everything works."

Barring that, I wanted to see "I switched from LXD to Incus and vague gesture X and Y don't work right."

Not interesting in any general sense, but my reasons are that I was just about to set up a new LXD host at my house, and retire an old one, but then the Incus fork was announced and I held off. LXD was fantastic overall for a homelab with 20-30 instances, but the non-fantastic parts were the weird Ubuttnuisms (mostly snap). So switching to Incus seems a no-brainer for me, if it is ready to rock.

Reading the docs, it sounds like it is, but I have kids and didn't manage to try it myself this weekend, so...

BTW do you have more info on the "openSUSE effort" angle? LXD supported non-snap installations the whole time AFAIK but the release announcement[1] is an intriguingly thorough expungement of Canonical-centric stuff.

I thought that was mainly just Stéphane Graber (the primary maintainer) being sick of their shit -- and he did quit Canonical like a week after they re-asserted control of LXD -- but is there more to know?

[1]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-0-1-has-been-rel...

Also see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37805849

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