Incus is coming to TrueNAS Scale 25.04!

A while ago I made a post about Incus that got pretty good response. For those who missed it, its a full LXC and KVM virtual machine management system by people who were previously LXD and Ubuntu maintainers. It is a really cool system, but I'd say it skews more towards the developer/sysadmin crowd due to the lack of an in house GUI and appliance like installation. Its definitely not as easy to get started with compared to Proxmox or XCP-ng.

This will be a very huge win for both projects. Incus will gain a much larger and more diverse user base among TrueNAS customers by having a polished GUI, and TrueNAS will finally get a virtualization / container solution that doesn't suck. I'm still of the mindset that your NAS and hypervisor should be on difference pieces of hardware, but either way, very cool to see!

https://www.truenas.com/blog/truenas-fangtooth-25-04/

Edit: Docker is great but I prefer to run my services on their own dedicated IP address without any port-mapping. Which of course you can do with a VM, but then if you want access host storage you need to use network file sharing via NFS/SMB between the host and the VM which seems so inefficient. LXC is going to be the best of both worlds for me personally.

The other win is that Incus is fully automateable via terraform: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/lxc/incus/latest/docs