Category Archives: LXD

The last Incus release before we go LTS has now been released!

This is quite the feature packed release as this is meant to include just about every features we want in Incus 6.0 LTS except for a few last minute minor additions.

You’ll find new features for just about everyone, from multi-cluster networking with the new network integrations, to enhanced performance on multi-socket servers with the improved NUMA support, to easier authentication with JSON Web Token support, to I/O limits for virtual machines and more USB passthrough options.

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!

Looking for something to do this weekend? How about trying out the all new Incus 0.6!

This Incus release is quite the feature packed one! It comes with an all new storage driver to allow a shared disk to be used for storage across a cluster. On top of that we also have support for backing up and restoring storage buckets, control over accessing of shared block devices, the ability to list images across all projects, a number of OVN improvements and more!

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!

Incus 0.5 is now out as the first release of 2024!

This is the first release featuring no imported changes from the LXD project, following Canonical’s decision to re-license LXD and add in a CLA. You’ll find details about that in one of my previous posts.

Overall, it’s a pretty busy release with a good mix of CLI improvements, new features for VM users, more flexibility around cluster evacuations and host shutdowns and a few more API improvements.

A variety of 3rd party tools have also been getting Incus support since the previous release, including, Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu and Packer.

Also of note, we now have native distribution packages for Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo, NixOS, Ubuntu and Void Linux. With ongoing work on a native Fedora package (COPR repo available until then).
We’ve updated our installation instructions to cover all of those!

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

As always, you can take Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

Just a quick reminder that 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.

And lastly, a quick note that I’ll be at FOSDEM next week, so if you’re attending and want to come say hi, you’ll find me in the containers devroom on Saturday and the kernel devroom on Sunday!

Just as we’re wrapping up 2023, one last Incus release!

Incus 0.4 is now out, including keepalive support in the command line tool, improved certificate management, new OVN configuration keys and the ability to create CephFS filesystems directly through Incus!

This is going to be the last release of Incus to benefit from any of the work that goes into Canonical LXD as their decision to re-license will be preventing us from taking in any additional fixes or improvements. You’ll find details about that in one of my previous posts.

Related to that change, we’ve made the decision to progressively phase out access to the Linux Containers image server for those users still on Canonical LXD. You’ll find details about the motivations and timeline for this change here.

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

Finally just a quick reminder that 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 holidays and see you all in 2024!

The second release of Incus is now out!

With this release, we finally got to spend less time on building up infrastructure and processes and more on working on meaningful improvements and new features with was really good to see!

This is also the first release with support for migrating LXD clusters over to Incus.
The built-in lxd-to-incus migration tool can now handle most standalone and clustered cases, performing a full initial validation of all settings to avoid surprises.

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer watching over reading, I’ve also recorded a video overview:

And lastly, my company is now 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

And for anyone who just wants to contribute a bit towards my work on this and other open source projects, you’ll also find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.