Category Archives: LXD

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.14!

This is a lighter release with quite a few welcome bugfixes and performance improvements, wrapping up some of the work with the University of Texas students and adding a few smaller features.

It also fixes a couple of security issues affecting those using network ACLs on bridge networks using nftables and network isolation.

The highlights for this release are:

• S3 upload of instance and volume backups
• Customizable expiry on snapshot creation
• Alternative default expiry for manually created snapshots
• Live migration tweaks and progress reporting
• Reporting of CPU address sizes in the resources API
• Database logic moved to our code generator

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.13!

This is a VERY busy release with a lot of new features of all sizes
and for all kinds of different users, so there should be something for
everyone!

The highlights for this release are:

• Windows agent support
• Improvements to incus-migrate
• SFTP on custom volumes
• Configurable instance external IP address on OVN networks
• Ability to pin gateway MAC address on OVN networks
• Clock handling in virtual machines
• New get-client-certificate and get-client-token commands
• DHCPv6 support for OCI
• Network host tables configuration for routed NICs
• Support for split image publishing
• Preseed of certificates
• Configuration of list format in the CLI
• Add CLI aliases for create/add and delete/remove/rm
• OS metrics are now included in Incus metrics when running on Incus OS
• Converted more database logic to generated code
• Converted more CLI list functions to using server side filtering
• Converted more documentation to be generated from the code

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.12!

This release comes with some very long awaited improvements such as online growth of virtual machine memory, network address sets for easier network ACLs, revamped logging support and more!

On top of the new features, this release also features quite a few welcome performance improvements, especially for systems with a lot of snapshots and with extra performance enhancements for those using ZFS.

The highlights for this release are:

• Network address sets
• Memory hotplug support in VMs
• Reworked logging handling & remote syslog
• SNAT support on complex network forwards
• Authentication through access_token parameter
• Improved server-side filtering in the CLI
• More generated documentation

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.11!

Without a doubt, the headline feature for this release is initial support for Linstor as a new storage driver for those looking for an alternative to Ceph! But that’s far from all that this Incus release brings to the table. It also comes with a lot of new VM, OCI and networking features!

The highlights for this release are:

• Linstor storage driver
• New MAC address range
• USB NICs in VMs
• USB disks in VMs
• Tracking of VM machine definition
• Configurable OCI entrypoint
• Unprivileged ICMP (ping) in OCI containers
• Unprivileged low ports in OCI containers
• Allocated CPU time in instance state API
• Configurable DNS servers
• Extra IPv4 routes through DHCP
• Configurable IPv4 DHCP lease expiry on OVN
• OVN logical switch name now part of network state

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.10!

This release brings in an easier way to run Incus on a valid HTTPS certificate, a new way to send through provisioning data to VMs, a very welcome API enhancement and much more!

The highlights for this release are:

• ACME DNS-01 validation (Let’s Encrypt)
• API wide filtering support
• Support for SMBIOS11 provisioning in VMs
• IOMMU support in VMs
• VRF support for routed NICs
• Creating profiles in a project through preseed
• LZ4 support for backups and images

NOTE: A bugfix release has been made available fixing a few regressions from the original 6.10 release. This is available as 6.10.1.

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!