Incus

incus-compose is a drop-in replacement for docker compose that runs your compose.yaml on Incus, with the full Incus API as an escape hatch when you need more than the Compose spec covers. Twelve days for 1.3 to come: backup, port-forward, and all the commands you might have been looking for. Full release notes: incus-compose 1.3 has been released on the Linux Containers forum. Two bits that did not make the announcement. run was a lot of hassle to create Incus has no “start this, tell me what it exited with”. An instance runs its entrypoint and the exit status goes nowhere. ...

A storage pool in Incus is a driver and a source. There are several drivers: zfs, btrfs, lvm, ceph, dir. dir is the most boring one, a directory. And a directory is allowed to be a tmpfs mount. mount -t tmpfs -o size=32g none /mnt/tmpfs incus storage create tmpfs dir source=/mnt/tmpfs From here on, every instance that starts on this pool lands in memory. Create incus launch images:debian/trixie runner --storage tmpfs Back up incus publish turns the instance into an image. If it’s still running, Incus demands --force. The aliases rotate the generations: ...