Incus

“Used it for years ... Supports docker images, container images (more like a container running a VM image) and vms”

“it was not possible to have two near identical container, one up one down, on the same cluster”

“I'm a huge fan of Incus. VMs, LXC, and OCI containers all under the same Docker-like CLI interface.”

“Clustering, containers, vm, networking, storage, monitoring; so much is streamlined.”

“Nice benefit is it lets me passthrough my GPU and share it between multiple containers.”

“eventually you will want to do something useful or different with them and the flexibility simply isn't there compared to a real vm”

“This way I pay the VM RAM tax only once, and the agents are still contained inside the VM”

“I've been on Incus with my homelab for a few months now, and couldn't be happier.”

“Ever since I started running coding agents with shell access I've jailed them inside of VMs. Since I run Linux I can just use incus for the VM management layer.”

“Incus's system containers seem like a good middle ground between Docker and VMs.”

“With some configuration you can get SR-IOV and older operating systems working aswell.”

“This seems very cool and I will probably try it, but I think I’m missing something.”

“Most of my team's development happens on beefy desktop machine in incus containers per dev+project”

“incus allows me to create a vm and not a container if I really need that level of isolation”

“What I've done instead is built a script to create a disposable virtual machine (using incus to manage it).”

“I'm quite happy with it, though the manifest format is not as fleshed out as what you have here.”

“how I can easily spin up and configure VMs directly using the CLI, without preparing a config first”

“You can mix and match VMs and containers, the terraform provider "just works", the setup is fast and easy”

“I've been successful with getting incus running with this for sandboxing the opencode session.”

“I did similar with incus! I'm convinced that VMs are the right primitive here”

“still more disposable than VMs (eg. it won't finish your laptop battery and annoy your ears with fan)”

“you bridge them, you get DHCP allocation identical to running a little PC on the local LAN”

“NixOS + Incus sounds like a good solution for declarative provisioning of hypervisor machines”

“We probably need to be moving more towards stuff like Incus here that treats VMs and system containers basically as variants of the same thing”

“the cool thing about incus is that it should be easy to switch between them”

“It allows you to setup vm's as containers and even provides a web ui and provides the amount of isolation that you can trust”

“Running IncusOS on some local hardware with ZFS underneath is a phenomenally powerful sandbox.”

“which is better for development since the containers are made for running systems/os”

“Incus still has some gaps in the functionality Proxmox fills out of the box.”

“It's a perfect combination for me, keeping the project on 22.04 essentially forever”

“Incus does everything (and more) with better interface, WAY better reliability”

“It looks like it may handle networking (via ovn) a bit better than what I have now”

“a big advantage of the 'full-stack' approach is things like network config, storage management, boot safety etc all work out of the box”

“Fantastic software, steady stream of reliable releases, helpful community... Incus is great.”

“I think their approach to authentication / authorization is insane (not in a good way).”

“It can do VMs, "system containers" like LXC and Docker/OCI-compatible application containers.”

“unintuitive/hard onboarding and bad defaults, which makes giving access to people annoying”

“It's my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting to setup a new virtualized environment.”

“presents a consistent management language for system containers, OCI containers, and VMs”

“Incus is amazing and it makes so many things so much easier compared to Proxmox.”