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Incus

A modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

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Overview

Incus is a next-generation system container and virtual machine manager that provides a unified command-line experience and REST API for managing both LXC containers and QEMU virtual machines. It scales from a developer's laptop to a full data center cluster, offering advanced features for networking, storage, and clustering.

✨ Key Features

  • Manages both system containers (LXC) and VMs (QEMU)
  • Powerful and intuitive command-line interface
  • REST API for automation and integration
  • Clustering capabilities for high availability
  • Advanced storage management (ZFS, Btrfs, LVM)
  • Advanced network management (bridges, OVN)

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Unified experience for both containers and VMs
  • Modern, clean CLI and REST API
  • Designed for both local development and large-scale clusters
  • Advanced, built-in networking and storage capabilities

Unique Value: Provides a seamless, powerful, and unified experience for managing both system containers and virtual machines, from a single machine to a large cluster.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Managing development environments on a local machine Running a private cloud or hosting platform Automating infrastructure provisioning and management High-density compute environments

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Managing application containers for microservices (Kubernetes is a better fit)

🏆 Alternatives

Proxmox VE Docker Desktop Vagrant OpenStack

Offers a more modern and developer-friendly experience than traditional enterprise virtualization platforms, and a more infrastructure-focused approach than application container platforms like Docker.

💻 Platforms

Desktop (Linux)

✅ Offline Mode Available

🔌 Integrations

LXC QEMU Ansible Terraform Packer

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

Free tier: The tool is completely open source and free.

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