Linux Containers

Before we install Incus, we need to install the following packages:

sudo apt install qemu-kvm virt-manager virtinst libvirt-clients bridge-utils libvirt-daemon-system -y

Note: To access the latest features in Incus, we must install it from the Zabbly daily repository. Ubuntu 22.04 doesn’t support Incus installation out of the box, so we must install it through the Zabbly repository.

You can add the package repository at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbly-incus-daily.sources.

Run the following commands to add the daily repository:

sudo curl -fsSL https://pkgs.zabbly.com/key.asc -o /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc

sudo sh -c 'cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbly-incus-daily.sources

Enabled: yes

Types: deb

URIs: https://pkgs.zabbly.com/incus/daily

Suites: $(. /etc/os-release && echo ${VERSION_CODENAME})

Components: main

Architectures: $(dpkg --print-architecture)

Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc

EOF'

Installing Incus

Update your repository list with:

sudo apt update

Then to install Incus, run:

sudo apt install incus

Other packages

The repository also includes the following packages:

• incus-client, a package containing only the CLI tool, useful when only managing remote servers

• incus-ui-canonical, a package containing a rebranded version of the LXD web interface for use with Incus

Fedora:

sudo dnf install @virtualization incus

Access control for Incus is based on group membership. The root user and all members of the incus-admin group can interact with the local daemon.

Add the current user to the incus admin group

sudo usermod -a -G incus-admin $USER

Append the following to the subordinate User id and group id file

echo "0:1000000:1000000000" | sudo tee /etc/subuid /etc/subgid

Enable the daemon on boot

sudo systemctl enable incus

Then reboot.

Enter the following command to start an instance:

incus start <instance_name>

Enter the following command to stop an instance:

incus stop <instance_name>

Enter the following command to delete an instance:

incus delete <instance_name>