Incus: A Next-Generation Container and Virtual Machine Manager
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Summary
Incus is a next-generation manager for system containers, application containers, and virtual machines, offering a user experience similar to a public cloud. It allows users to mix containers and VMs with shared storage and networking, supports multiple Linux distributions, and provides flexibility across various hardware from laptops to cloud instances. It is part of the broader LXC ecosystem.
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It provides a user experience similar to that of a public cloud.
With it, you can easily mix and match both containers and virtual machines, sharing the same underlying storage and network.
Incus is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions.
It provides flexibility and scalability for various use cases, with support for different storage backends and network types and the option to install on hardware ranging from an individual laptop or cloud instance.
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