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stgraber (Stephane Graber) August 7, 2023, 1:53pm 1

The Linux Containers project is excited to announce its latest
addition, Incus!

Incus isn't a completely new project however, it's a fork of LXD
created by Aleksa Sarai.
Aleksa Sarai is most known for his work on runc, umoci and other
OpenContainers projects as well as contributions to the Linux kernel.

But in addition to all that, he's also been the long time packager of
LXD in OpenSUSE.
Aleksa created the fork shortly after Canonical's decision to take
LXD away from Linux Containers with the name Incus being introduced
immediately following the LXD 5.16 release. This fork was first
intended as a personal project, but has since gathered quite a bit of
interest both from the community as well as from former LXD
contributors.

After some discussion with Aleksa and a fair bit of encouragement
from our community, we have made the decision to take Incus under the
umbrella of Linux Containers and will commit to it the infrastructure
which was previously made available to LXD.

The goal of Incus is to provide a fully community led alternative to
Canonical's LXD as well as providing an opportunity to correct some
mistakes that were made during LXD's development which couldn't be
corrected without breaking backward compatibility.

In addition to Aleksa, the initial set of maintainers for Incus will
include Christian Brauner, Serge Hallyn, Stephane Graber and Tycho
Andersen, effectively including the entire team that once created
LXD.

There is no clearly defined roadmap at this point. Incus will be
tracking changes happening in LXD and will likely in time diverge
from it as different decisions get made.
A stable release of Incus is likely at least a couple of months away
so existing LXD users shouldn't rush to find a way to migrate quite
yet!

You can find more details or ask us your questions here:

  * Github: GitHub - lxc/incus: Powerful system container and virtual
    machine manager
  * Forum: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org

Sincerely,

Aleksa Sarai and the Linux Containers team:

Christian Brauner
Serge Hallyn
Stephane Graber

(Original post: Linux Containers - Incus - Introduction)

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stgraber (Stephane Graber) Pinned globally August 7, 2023, 1:53pm 2
Hye-Dev (Joseph Maldjian) August 7, 2023, 3:05pm 3

I am so excited for Incus! Take the L Canonical!

vrms (Gunnar) August 7, 2023, 5:44pm 4

is there an idea yet how to distribute Incus (snap, distro packaging,
AppImage ...) ?
I guess getting away from LXD's snap-first approach would be highly
appreciated by quite a few.

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adamcstephens (Adam Stephens) August 7, 2023, 5:48pm 5

Appears this is already done . :slight_smile: https://github.com/lxc/
incus/issues/8

Congratulations. I look forward to adding the package to nixpkgs (and
continuing to improve the Incus/LXD support for nixos in general).

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tenforward August 7, 2023, 6:25pm 6

We have added Japanese contents for Incus!! :raised_hands:
Incus noRi Ben Yu peziwoZuo Cheng shimashita!!
https://linuxcontainers.org/ja/incus/

victoitor (Victor) August 7, 2023, 6:59pm 7

Will you be making videos following incus updates? :sweat_smile:

Helped me a lot when I was starting with lxd. Also missed it for
5.16. It would be nice for future incus development.

I spent this morning reading the issues on incus (and actually saw it
change to lxc/incus) and found it was interesting how this was
possible to correct previous design choices. Will there be a
discussion on what other design choices could be changed for the
future?

stgraber (Stephane Graber) August 7, 2023, 7:11pm 8

Yeah, I'll probably get back on Youtube at some point soon and am
likely to be doing videos at least for the new releases. No
guarantees on the weekly videos as that was getting a bit taxing, not
to mention, I was starting to run out of content :wink:

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Andrew_Wilson (Andrew Wilson) August 7, 2023, 10:41pm 9

Woohoo. I am so happy. :tada::champagne::100::sunglasses::+1::heart:

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