incus

Containerized: Incus

This package builds a SkiffOS system for use as a Incus container image.

Incus containers are versatile system containers that, as opposed to application containers like docker, emulate a full init system by default more details here and are therefore well suited for multi service/container deployments. Incus utilizes the LXC APIs internally and provides a powerful toolset on top of them.

Building and starting the container requires incus to be installed and running on the host and the executing user to be in the incus-admin group.

Example

# Compile the system
$ SKIFF_CONFIG=virt/incus make configure compile
$ make cmd/virt/incus/buildimage
$ make cmd/virt/incus/run

Executing a shell in the container:

$ make cmd/virt/incus/exec
# alternatively
$ incus exec skiff -- sh

Persistence

When using the included command cmd/virt/incus/run for creating the container, a persistence volume will be created in the first incus storage pool available and attached to the container. If you want to reset the persistence volume, just delete it, and it will be recreated:

# You can find the right storage pool with:
# incus storage list -c n -f csv | head -n 1
$ incus storage volume delete "${STORAGE_POOL}" skiff-persist