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.
While starting this post I realized I have been maintaining personal infrastructure for over a decade! Most of the things I’ve self-hosted is been for personal uses. Email server, a blog, an IRC server, image hosting, RSS reader and so on. All of these things has all been a bit all over the place and never properly streamlined. Some has been in containers, some has just been flat files with a nginx service in front and some has been a random installed Debian package from somewhere I just forgot.
ミニPCにIncusOSをインストールして、Tailscale経由で接続可能なTalos Linuxによるk8sクラスタを構築
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Found out about #incusos. Not going to lie, I'm interested. 😎 I don't like managing the base os for workloads. It's why many immutable os fascinate me.
Going to have to see if I want this over alternatives. 😅
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/announcing-incusos/25139/5
Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/
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