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The second Long Term Support release of Incus is now out!

This is very exciting stuff, getting much closer to the Proxmox or VMware experience!

So excited about Incus running Docker containers!

Depends what kind of commercial offerings you're considering.

If you're looking at virtualization like VMWare, Incus can run a cluster on any hardware you want with various storage and network options, letting you run your VMs and even share the cluster with different teams/people.

But unlike VMWare ESXi, Incus is software you install on a normal Linux system instead of its own OS. It also doesn't come with an official web interface though there are some options for that too.

It's a lot lighter weight than something complex like OpenStack or Kubernetes, it doesn't need dedicated infrastructure machines, the control plane is automatically distributed.

It's more similar than a Proxmox or XCP but those feel less flexible to me. But I also haven't played with them too much recently.

And of course, this is Open Source, so something like what's going on with VMWare licensing can't really happen here, but same is true for any OSS option.

This release includes a new exciting way to do cluster storage as well as a bunch of other cool features!

First release of Incus since Canonical re-licensed LXD and added a CLA, still a lot of changes and improvements.