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Incus 6.4 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 11, 2024,

updated Aug 14, 2024

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A month after its previous 6.3 release, Incus, an open-source container and virtual machine manager, released its latest update, Incus 6.4, labeled by its developers as a “balanced release with something new for everyone.”

For those unfamiliar, exactly a year ago, the project emerged in response to Canonical’s increased control over LXD, aiming to provide an open-source alternative that remains under the stewardship of the original LXD community.

This latest update introduces new features and bug fixes, enhances support for complex shared and cluster environments, and improves overall system robustness and user experience.

Read on

Planet Ubuntu:

Announcing Incus 6.4 | Stéphane Graber's website

This release builds upon the recently added OCI support from Incus 6.3, making it even easier to run application containers. It also adds a number of useful new features for clustered and larger environments with more control on the virtual CPU used when live migrating VMs and finer grained resource constraints within projects.

LWN:

Incus 6.4 released

Version 6.4 of the Incus container manager is out. This release builds upon the recently added OCI support from Incus 6.3, making it even easier to run application containers. It also adds a number of useful new features for clustered and larger environments with more control on the virtual CPU used when live migrating VMs and finer grained resource constraints within projects. See this announcement for details.