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Incus 6.0 LTS has been released

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34 pointsstgraber12 comments

Wow, amazed by the speed of development. That’s a long list of new features since the fork

Ooh, this looks good:

    Live-migration of VMs with attached disks (from remote storage)

That could be really big news for Ceph users with HA requirements or desires. :)

Can someone explain where this product fits v/s commercial offerings?

Sorry for getting confused with virtualization nomenclature

Depends what kind of commercial offerings you're considering.

If you're looking at virtualization like VMWare, Incus can run a cluster on any hardware you want with various storage and network options, letting you run your VMs and even share the cluster with different teams/people.

But unlike VMWare ESXi, Incus is software you install on a normal Linux system instead of its own OS. It also doesn't come with an official web interface though there are some options for that too.

It's a lot lighter weight than something complex like OpenStack or Kubernetes, it doesn't need dedicated infrastructure machines, the control plane is automatically distributed.

It's more similar than a Proxmox or XCP but those feel less flexible to me. But I also haven't played with them too much recently.

And of course, this is Open Source, so something like what's going on with VMWare licensing can't really happen here, but same is true for any OSS option.

> It also doesn't come with an official web interface though there are some options for that too.

Before the fork LXD had added a web ui. Did Incus remove it?

There's a web ui link on bottom of introduction page https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

The LXD UI is a separate project from LXD, it's at https://github.com/canonical/lxd-ui

It's one of the UI options you can use on top of Incus and a rebranded version of it is what we're making available as part of our online demo.

I guess the confusion was because Canonical packages it as part of their LXD snap.

This is a system container / virtual machine manager. It is pretty awesome tech. Have been using it since 2014 I think... Supports zfs ... my biggest issue had been data loss on my root disk causing loss of container config... Managed to reimport everything to a new lxd install with the same zfs pool ;)

I thought they are using Go, they are. Seems like Go has really become an old man's language.

> an old man's language

Err... what?

Wiser

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