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IncusOS - Let's work on OpenID Connect!

December 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

This week's #Incus OS livestream will be about OIDC cloud login! youtube.com/live/QfNbYHm...

IncusOS - Let's do some firewalling!

December 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS live stream, we'll be doing some firewalling!
youtube.com/live/s8OQRYL...

Sponsor this work: https://github.com/sponsors/stgraber, https://patreon.com/stgraber or https://ko-fi.com/stgraber ----- As more and more folks start using IncusOS, some of those will have the server...

Incus 6.19 has been released

December 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

#Incus 6.19 has been released!
This comes with initial SELinux support, an improved Windows VM agent, serial device reporting, bandwidth limits on OVN NICs and more!
discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-19...

Introduction The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.19! This is a slightly less busy release than usual as we’ve recently been spending quite a bit of time smoothing some of the...

IncusOS - Let's add storage volume support

December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS live stream, I'll be continuing last week's work on Linstor support by adding the ability to create storage volumes (datasets) for use by Linstor.
youtube.com/live/nKoovIq...

IncusOS - Let's add Linstor support

November 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Just because #IncusOS is out doesn't mean I'm going to be stopping the #Incus live streams! This week's will be about adding #Linstor support! youtube.com/live/jge4uL3...

Sponsor this work: https://github.com/sponsors/stgraber, https://patreon.com/stgraber or https://ko-fi.com/stgraber ----- In this live stream, I'll be adding Linstor support to IncusOS. Github issue:...

Introduction After a bit over a year of hard work, the development team is very excited to announce general availability of IncusOS! IncusOS is a modern immutable OS image that’s specifically desi...

November 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Very excited to announce the general availability of #IncusOS today, an immutable OS image specifically designed to run #Incus!
discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/announcing...

Announcing IncusOS

Incus 6.18 has been released

November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Wrapping up the week with an #Incus release!
Incus 6.18 is now out, bringing support for systemd credentials, file operations on custom volumes, MacOS VM agent support and more!
discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-18...

Introduction The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.18! This is a reasonably busy release with quite a few smaller releases in every corner of Incus so there should be something...

GitHub - lxc/terraform-provider-incus: Incus provider for Terraform/OpenTofu

October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Today we released version 1.0 of the #Terraform provider for #Incus!
This marks the point at which we're happy with the base feature set and aren't expected API-breaking changes in the near future. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this milestone!
github.com/lxc/terrafor...

Incus provider for Terraform/OpenTofu. Contribute to lxc/terraform-provider-incus development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

October 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS livestream, I'll be adding #Tailscale support!
youtube.com/live/3zO6MvP...

IncusOS - Let's add Tailscale support

The full FuturFusion Cloud stack

October 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Just published a long video overview of the whole stack we've built with my team at FuturFusion! #Incus
youtu.be/TzH2L5Bzlh8

IncusOS - Let's improve the CLI

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October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS livestream, I'll be focusing on the CLI, moving it into the IncusOS codebase and adding some new commands to it!
youtube.com/live/Q0CZg7f...

IncusOS - Let's deploy an Incus cluster with Operations Center

October 16, 2025 at 5:06 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS livestream, we'll be deploying an Incus cluster using FuturFusion's Operations Center with everything running on top of IncusOS!
youtube.com/live/dgZfNwF...

Sponsor this work: https://github.com/sponsors/stgraber, https://patreon.com/stgraber or https://ko-fi.com/stgraber ----- Now that we have IncusOS applications for Incus, Operations Center and Migrati...

Linux Plumbers Conference 2025

October 9, 2025 at 6:20 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Only three more days to submit topics to this year's Containers and Checkpoint/Restore devroom at Linux Plumbers (Tokyo, Japan)!
lpc.events/event/19/ses...

The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for the open source community. The LPC brings together the top developers working on the plumbing of Linux - kernel subsys...

lpc.events

October 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Another week, another #Incus OS live stream, this time, adding support for remote syslog!
youtube.com/live/_Q3cF10...

Incus OS - Let's add remote syslog logging

Incus 6.17 has been released

October 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

#Incus 6.17 is out!
Comes with an early CLI to control IncusOS, support for tunnels on OVN networks, OOM control knobs, config overrides on backup import and more!
discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-17...

Introduction The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.17! This release comes with an early CLI for IncusOS users, a couple of nice enhancements to OVN networking, more flexibility...

Incus OS - Let's improve the integration with Incus

September 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS livestream, I'll be improving the integration between Incus and IncusOS!
youtube.com/live/Uo3jIeQ...

Sponsor this work: https://github.com/sponsors/stgraber, https://patreon.com/stgraber or https://ko-fi.com/stgraber ----- We already have a couple of integration points between Incus and Incus OS, mos...

Incus OS - Let's add Ceph support

September 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS live stream, I'll be looking at adding Ceph (client) support.
youtube.com/live/X11xVg7...

Sponsor this work: https://github.com/sponsors/stgraber, https://patreon.com/stgraber or https://ko-fi.com/stgraber ----- Let's spend a bit of time expanding support for software defined storage in In...

Incus OS - Let's implement a CLI

September 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS live stream I'll (finally) be looking at adding a CLI to manage a remote Incus OS server! youtube.com/live/LoAeBi1...

Incus 6.16 has been released

September 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

#Incus 6.16 has been released!
This one comes with a TrueNAS storage driver, ability to install Windows VMs without repacking the ISOs and support for tmpfs-backed disks for containers.
discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-16...

Introduction The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.16! This release brings in a new storage driver, the ability to install Windows VMs without having to rely on a repacked ISO ...

Incus OS - Let's work on the REST API

August 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS live stream, I'll be looking at expanding our REST API!
youtube.com/live/qCD-7Di...

Zabbly repository signing key needs refreshing

August 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Heads up for anyone using the #Zabbly packaging repositories (Incus, Linux, OVN or ZFS), the GPG key was about to expire and has been renewed but you'll need to pull a refreshed version of the key to get updates!
discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/zabbly-rep...

When I first set up the Zabbly repositories for kernel builds, Incus and ZFS, I created a GPG key with a 2 years validity. Those 2 years are going to be up in just a few days (August 22nd). I’ve upda...

LXC/LXCFS/Incus 6.0.5 LTS release | Stéphane Graber's website

August 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

Time for another round of LTS updates for #LXC, #LXCFS and #Incus!
Version 6.0.5 LTS of all three projects is now out.
stgraber.org/2025/08/15/l...

Stéphane Graber's website -

stgraber.org

August 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM

Stéphane Graber

@stgraber.org

In this week's #Incus OS livestream, I'm going to be working on image publishing for our image server.
youtube.com/live/gZU1jfi...

Incus OS - Let's work on the image server