Incus 0.2 released

[Posted October 31, 2023 by corbet]

Version 0.2 of Incus, an LXD fork, has been released. "This version incorporates most changes that went into LXD 5.19 as well as introduce a few additional features and improvements." Changes include NVME storage support, support for migrating clustered environments from LXD, and more.

What is this?

Posted Nov 1, 2023 19:53 UTC (Wed) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link] (3 responses)

Whatever Incus is or does. Also the cited link leaves the occasional non-LXDer in the dark.

What is this?

Posted Nov 2, 2023 6:50 UTC (Thu) by highvoltage (subscriber, #57465) [Link]

Incus is a fork of LXD. It's founded by (at least most) of the people who originally wrote LXC/LXD at Canonical. From what I understand, after they left Canonical, they were locked out of contributing to LXD by being denied access to the git repository (and I suppose draconian CLA agreements could also have played a part), so they forked it to the new project called Incus, LWN also referred to it a while ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/940684/

What is this?

Posted Nov 3, 2023 14:53 UTC (Fri) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link] (1 responses)

Incus (and LXD) is a tool to manage whole-OS containers (in contract to docker and friends, which manage application containers). It's supposed to be a more lightweight alternative to things like libvirtd that manage virtual machines.

What is this?

Posted Nov 3, 2023 17:02 UTC (Fri) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]

Thanks, that helps.