Comment by jvican

11 hours ago

I use IncusOS in my homelab. It's a joy to set up and use.

Migrated from Proxmox and manage all my VMs. Heavily use coding assistants to automatically set things up through the IncusOS CLI, translate Docker-Compose images to Incus, write bash scripts to automate launching new containers to use `--dangerously-skip-permissions` without fear of repercussions, etc.

What I love the most about it is that it's possible to manage IncusOS with declarative files, so you always have visibility into networking setups, resource configuration, etc.

Highly recommend checking IncusOS out if you have similar use cases!

As someone who has moved the opposite way, heavily using Incus and now checking out Proxmox, what made you go for IncusOS?

My gut feeling is that enterprise sentiment is leaning heavily towards Proxmox, fuelled by a VMware exodus that will only gain speed, and I don't see Incus really meeting the requirements most people have that previously used VMware, but of course Incus is awesome and you can't always pick technologies by what will be "employable" :-)

What solution do you use for declarative deployments? Last time I looked there was no default option?

I haven't migrated to IncusOS just yet, but I use Incus on a server and have been pretty happy so far.