Category Archives: LXD

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.18!

This is a reasonably busy release with quite a few smaller releases in every corner of Incus so there should be something for everyone!

The highlights for this release are:

• Systemd credentials support
• File operations on storage volumes
• Exporting of ISO volumes
• BFP token delegation
• MacOS support in the Incus VM agent
• VirtIO sound cards for VMs
• Support for temporarily detaching USB devices
• Configurable DNS mode for OVN networks
• Configurable MAC address patterns for networks and instances
• Extended IncusOS management CLI

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!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.17!

This release comes with an early CLI for IncusOS users, a couple of nice enhancements to OVN networking, more flexibility for cluster users and a couple of new instance options.

The highlights for this release are:

• IncusOS management commands
• Tunnel support on OVN networks
• Control over out-of-memory priority
• Override-able configuration and devices on backup import
• database-client cluster role
• Support for parent=none on OVN uplink networks
• Cluster groups in configuration preseed

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!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.16!

This release brings in a new storage driver, the ability to install Windows VMs without having to rely on a repacked ISO and support for temporary storage in containers.

The highlights for this release are:

• TrueNAS storage driver
• USB CD-ROM handling for VMs
• tmpfs and tmpfs-overlay disks for containers
• Configurable console behavior in the CLI

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!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.15!

This is one of those releases which has a bit of everything, improvements for application containers, VMs, clustering, networking and even some CLI enhancements.

Worth noting that we’ve also made some good progress on Incus OS and now use it to run the online demo environment. We’ve also made a new downloading tool for it with instructions available here.

The highlights for this release are:

• Authentication support for OCI registries
• Webhook as a logging target
• More control over memory hotplug behavior in VMs
• Persistent CD-ROM ejection in VMs
• Configurable WWN for disk devices in VMs
• Dynamic IPv6 network address
• Configurable keepalive mode in the CLI
• Markdown output in the CLI
• More server-side filtering support in the CLI

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!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.14!

This is a lighter release with quite a few welcome bugfixes and performance improvements, wrapping up some of the work with the University of Texas students and adding a few smaller features.

It also fixes a couple of security issues affecting those using network ACLs on bridge networks using nftables and network isolation.

The highlights for this release are:

• S3 upload of instance and volume backups
• Customizable expiry on snapshot creation
• Alternative default expiry for manually created snapshots
• Live migration tweaks and progress reporting
• Reporting of CPU address sizes in the resources API
• Database logic moved to our code generator

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!