Category Archives: LXD

Announcing Incus 6.6

A slightly less busy release this time, mostly due to traveling to the Linux Plumbers Conference and associated events a few weeks ago.

But still far from a boring release. On top of the usual bugfix and performance improvements, we’re getting a number of nice additions for virtual machines, improved clustered LVM support, improvements to incus-migrate and a number of new network features!

The highlights for this release are:

  • OS info for virtual machines
  • Console history for virtual machines
  • Ability to create clustered LVM volume groups
  • QCOW2 and VMDK support in incus-migrate
  • Configurable macvlan mode
  • Load-balancer health information
  • External interfaces in OVN networks
  • Parallel cluster evacuation/restoration

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!

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Announcing Incus 6.5

This release contains a very good mix of bug fixes and performances improvements as well as exciting new features across the board!

The highlights for this release are:

  • Instance auto-restart
  • Column selection in all list commands
  • QMP command hooks and scriptlet
  • Live disk resize for VMs
  • PCI devices hotplug for VMs
  • OVN load-balancer health checks
  • OVN Interconnect ECMP support
  • OVN NICs promiscuous mode
  • OVN NICs disabling of IP allocation
  • Configurable LVM PV metadata size
  • Configurable OVS socket path

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!

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Announcing Incus 6.4

This release builds upon the recently added OCI support from Incus 6.3, making it even easier to run application containers. It also adds a number of useful new features for clustered and larger environments with more control on the virtual CPU used when live migrating VMs and finer grained resource constraints within projects.

The highlights for this release are:

  • Cluster group configuration
  • Per-cluster group CPU baseline
  • Attaching sub-directories of custom storage volumes
  • Per storage pool project limits
  • Isolated OVN networks (no uplink)
  • Per-instance LXCFS
  • Environment files at create/launch time

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!

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Announcing Incus 6.3

This release includes the long awaited OCI/Docker image support!
With this, users who previously were either running Docker alongside Incus or Docker inside of an Incus container just to run some pretty simple software that’s only distributed as OCI images can now just do it directly in Incus.

In addition to the OCI container support, this release also comes with:

  • Baseline CPU definition within clusters
  • Filesystem support for io.bus and io.cache
  • Improvements to incus top
  • CPU flags in server resources
  • Unified image support in incus-simplestreams
  • Completion of libovsdb transition

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!

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Announcing Incus 6.2

This release is the second one to feature contribution from students at the University of Texas in Austin, there are a couple more features that were contributed by students which will most likely make it into Incus 6.3 at which point we’ll have wrapped up all of those for this year.

If you’d like to try your hands at contributing some code to Incus, we maintain a list of issues for newcomers, primarily issues and features that are well understood and on which we’d be happy to provide mentoring and assistance.

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!

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