Incus

Last time I was writing a post, I was facing all sorts of weird issues with the console. Lines would break in the middle of the screen, entering commands would sometimes leave me without a prompt, etc. Weird stuff. Today, I figured out what I had probably forgotten since I was last doing this. Don’t use the incus console <instance> command if you want to interact with the system. It just does weird stuff like what I described above.

Two months ago, I wrote about the LXD fork called Incus that was in the works. The first release of Incus is out and looks interesting. I haven’t installed it yet, but did give it a try online. It is very similar to LXD but has some nice changes. First, the simplification around instances rather than having separate containers and virtual machines is nice. It breaks backwards compatibility but makes things simpler going forward.