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Comment by Semaphor

1 day ago

So it looks like a Proxmox alternative, this [0] goes into some reasons to switch. Main selling point seems to be fully OSS and no enterprise version.

[0]: https://tadeubento.com/2024/replace-proxmox-with-incus-lxd/

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hardwaresofton  1 day ago

It’s more like a Kubernetes alternative

  • moondev  1 day ago

    Proxmox feels like a more apt comparison, as they both act like a controlplane for KVM virtual-machines and LXC containers across one or multiple hosts.

    If you are interested in running kubernetes on top of incus, that is your kubernetes cluster nodes will be made up of KVM or LXC instances - I highly recommend the cluster-api provider incus https://github.com/lxc/cluster-api-provider-incus

    This provider is really well done and maintained, including ClusterClass support and array of pre-built machine images for both KVM and LXC. It also supports pivoting the mgmt cluster on to a workload cluster, enabling the mgmt cluster to upgrade itself which is really cool.

    I was surprised to come across this provider by chance as for some reason it's not listed on the CAPI documentation provider list https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/providers