finally installed the tpm2.0 hardware, in preparation of #incusos (some other day)

#incus

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.

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

ちょっとこの記事を見つけたので見ていた

https://pf.korako.me/post/14539

#Talos and #IncusOS both have "web tools" to "generate" an image that is specifically tailored to your needs (system extensions, plugins, etc.).

That feels super weird to me. I mean, why would I want to share part of my config with the website? Why would I want to download multiple times the whole ISO file when I could download it once, and customize it on my workstation.

Why not a local tool asking the same questions, downloading/caching the requested fragments and building the thing locally???

This feels like an antipattern to collect usage stats or something.

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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