lxc/incus
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
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Where it stands
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3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 13 days ago, with 378 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #48 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 29, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Manages system containers and virtual machines through a unified, REST API-driven platform.
- Offers scalable, secure management from single machines to full data center clusters with broad Linux distribution support.
- Use for creating isolated Linux environments for development and testing on a single host.
- Use for deploying and managing virtual machines and containers in a private cloud infrastructure.
- Use for migrating from LXD to a fully open source container and VM management solution without vendor lock-in.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Incus is a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.
It provides a unified experience for running and managing full Linux systems inside containers or virtual machines. Incus supports images for a large number of Linux distributions (official Ubuntu images and images provided by the community) and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API. Incus scales from one instance on a single machine to a cluster in a full data center rack, making it suitable for running workloads both for development and in production.
Incus allows you to easily set up a system that feels like a small private cloud. You can run any type of workload in an efficient way while keeping your resources optimized.
You should consider using Incus if you want to containerize different environments or run virtual machines, or in general run and manage your infrastructure in a cost-effective way.
You can try Incus online at:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/Incus, which is named after the Cumulonimbus incus or anvil cloud started as a community fork of Canonical's LXD following Canonical's takeover of the LXD project from the Linux Containers community.
The project was then adopted by the Linux Containers community, taking back the spot left empty by LXD's departure.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+677 stars over 86 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +38 on Aug 29.
Forks
513+42
Open issues
36-6
Compared with peers in Cloud
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| Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon | 3.3K | +360 | 40 | today |
| juicedata/juicefs | 14.7K | +105 | 64 | 14 days ago |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo | 21.1K | — | 63 | 38 days ago |
| quarkusio/quarkus | 16.0K | — | 60 | 2 days ago |
| awslabs/mcp | 9.8K | — | 65 | 9 days ago |
| lxc/incus | 6.5K | — | 64 | 13 days ago |
| Category median | 14.7K | +233 | 63 | — |
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