Wrapping up the week with a rather busy #Incus release! Incus 6.22 is now out with quite a lot of changes all over the place, from an improved Windows agent to a variety of storage, network and clustering features.
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-22-has-been-released/26300

I'm prepared for the high RAM prices being high for the next year or so, by having enough RAM to run several more #incus containers (preferred), and failing that, also several more #Docker containers (*much* more expensive on RAM).
#OpenSource #Linux

After days of hitting my head against the wall with #incus (#lxc) - I was able to boot my first #OmniOS zone ever within minutes of bootup.

#Incus admittedly has better documentation, but in practice was much more fragile.

finally installed the tpm2.0 hardware, in preparation of #incusos (some other day)

#incus

@blablalinux I chose #incus for my infrastructure. Indeed, I am using separate domains to separate the activities.

I am more interested in knowing how you are getting people to use the public services you implemented. If you had to host one service for the public, what would it be.

BTW, I have started documenting my homelab/self-hosting journey at segfaux.fr but I now realize the articles are in French (which you may be able to read given your location.

I love the idea of #incus as a Linux clone of FreeBSD jails/Solaris zones, but it feels like the getting-started experience could use some attention.

I'm on attempt #7, here are things the init has refused to handle:

- Autodetecting a suitable IP range
- Handling a pre-formatted btrfs partition
- Recovering once I got those things right (Failed detecting root disk device: No root device could be found)
- Handling if the incus volume was created in a previous attempt
- Whatever this error is.

This week's #Incus OS livestream will be about debugging, specifically adding an application debugging API to make it easy to gather debug data out of production systems!
https://youtube.com/live/pzvNGCa1JZo?feature=share

My mini homelab cluster using Uncloud on IncusOS and a DigitalOcean Droplet | Always Developing #258

With Uncloud it's super easy to set up a cluster of Docker nodes meshed together with WireGuard for running a bunch of services.

In this video I show how I've set up my tiny homelab to run Uncloud on top of Incus and IncusOS, plus a DigitalOcean Droplet for public access.

I also scale up the cluster.

https://ianmjones.com/2026/02/my-mini-homelab-cluster-using-uncloud-on-incusos-and-a-digitalocean-droplet-always-developing-258/

#alwaysdeveloping #cluster #docker #homelab #incus #uncloud #youtube

I just posted to my blog -- "libvirt network forwarding inconsistencies": In an INCUS container on a KVM guest, ping commands are successful when executed on the container, but not when the are executed from the host on the other end -- Read more here: https://www.dfoley.ie/blog/libvirt-network-forwarding-inconsistencies -- #linux #libvirt #incus #POSSE

In this week's #Incus OS live stream, I'll be adding the ability to encrypt and automatically decrypt standalone disks! https://youtube.com/live/grqEhgzI70Q?feature=share

Kapsule: it shipped and nobody died

"In my last post , I laid out the vision for Kapsule—a container-based extensibility layer for KDE Linux built on top of Incus."

I really like what's happening here. This might be of good use for other distros as well.

Link: https://blog.lasath.org/2026/02/kapsule-it-shipped-and-nobody-died.html?m=1

#linkdump #blogpost #incus #kapsule #kde #plasma

Yesterday I worked on a #terraform postgres module wrapping another #incus module for good two hours. Some hard lessons were learned.
So at this point I am three modules deep, reorganizing them as I go while trying to keep things simple and repeatable. Wait for that cloud-init, set up them users and hba conf, lock down config, yadda yadda.

I thought that I can wait for postgres to report ready, the port to be up before I hand over to the pg provider which handles the database creation. Connection refused :D time and time again.
With feedback loops of a few minutes I wasted quite a bit of time before I figured out I should be building base images with (here) #postgres and not installing it and extensions fresh every time I spin up something.

So today it is time to look into distrobuilder finally. And where I can host my own incus/lxc images. :atuin:

So I saw a blog post linked on here the other week about someone's homelab where they use #Incus to run all their containers and VMs. And I've fallen into the rabbit hole.

That post: https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/

Anyway, Incus is the fork/successor to #LXD which as recently as last year they released #IncusOS which is a very slimmed down OS for running multiple types of containers and VMs. A bit like #Proxmox in a sense.

What I like about the distro:
- Immutable
- A-side/B-side partition layout for friendlier updates
- Requires Secure Boot + TPM, resulting in encrypted drives by default
- ZFS. I've loved ZFS for many years.

It really seems like this was built for edge type deployments where secure "appliance" like things really excel yet still a net benefit elsewhere.

Since vSphere was killed, this feels pretty damn close to what I liked about it.

Can already run VMs along side "System Containers" (shared kernel + init system) and "App Containers" (what everyone calls "Docker"). I see on the roadmap support for MicroVMs (OCI container + individual kernel).

I run all of my stuff bar storage on #k3s on baremetal but there's times when I need a VM or different container behaviour than it offers.

Back to #Incus OS live streams, this week's going to be about extending our debug features!
https://youtube.com/live/1AM7OigD-ns?feature=share

"LXD: The Uprising Begins"
Ich dachte wir wären alle zu Incus gewechselt…

#LXC #LXD #Linux #Incus #Netflix

Here is how I use a corporate sanctioned Windows managed laptop as a perfectly cromulent headless Linux server for sane (?🤔) development workflow, it is, of course, containers all the way down !

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/windows/windows-is-my-cloud


#linux #laptop #windows #vm #containers #hacking #wsl2 #incus #docker #madScience

Even though I am planing to switch to #incus, I am glad I was using #libvirt until now. Thanks to that I was able to build my clusters, storage and network exactly as I wanted and I never felt locked inside some arbitrary concepts.

I feel that this should be the right way to do: gain experience with an agnostic setup then when you feel like you're ready (and if you need to), switch to a more opinionated solution.

With Incus 6.21, users get a new incus wait command, smarter SR-IOV NIC handling, and stronger access controls.
https://linuxiac.com/incus-6-21-container-virtual-machine-manager-released/

#virtualization #containerization #incus #opensource

Wrapping up a busy week with the release of #Incus 6.21! This brings in a long awaited CLI improvement, better SR-IOV handling and a variety of other features!
This also fixes a couple of security issues affecting shared systems with restricted access.
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-21-has-been-released/26005