incus-compose v1.3 has been released

incus-compose v1.3 has been released

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. ...

Tech · August 28, 2026 · 2 min · René Jochum
Twenty-Two Betas

Twenty-Two Betas

Six and a half months after the first announcement, 22 betas and 2 rcs later: incus-compose is 1.0.0. Three Rewrites ended on a line I want to pick back up. “go-orb: three years of work. No users. incus-compose: two months. Several.” That stayed true. People ran it, broke it, filed issues — and the core from The Core Should Know Nothing just kept absorbing what they threw at it. New resources, new edge cases, no changes to the core itself. ...

Tech · July 11, 2026 · 3 min · René Jochum