{"id":45455,"date":"2024-02-04T13:10:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=45455"},"modified":"2024-02-04T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T13:10:34","slug":"use-incus-container-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/use-incus-container-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install and Use Incus Container in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This simple tutorial shows how to install and use Incus container in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.<\/p>\n

Incus is a free open-source system container and virtual machine manager developed by Linux Containers community. It supports images for a large number of Linux distributions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With it, you can manage your containers and VMs either with a simple command line tool, directly through the REST API or by using third-party tools and integrations.<\/p>\n

Incus was started as community fork of Canonical’s LXD. Now, it’s led and maintained by much of the same people that once created LXD.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Install Incus<\/h3>\n

Incus is available in Zabbly repository maintained by the software developer. So far, it supports Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 12 and Debian 11.<\/p>\n

To install it, first open terminal from system start menu or Gnome activities overview screen. Ubuntu users can simply press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> on keyboard.<\/p>\n

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1.<\/b> First, run 2 commands one by one to make sure \/etc\/apt\/keyrings<\/code> exist, then download & install the key file:<\/p>\n

sudo mkdir -p \/etc\/apt\/keyrings<\/pre>\n
wget -qO - https:\/\/pkgs.zabbly.com\/key.asc | sudo tee \/etc\/apt\/keyrings\/zabbly.asc<\/pre>\n
For Debian, run sudo apt install wget<\/code> first if wget command not found.<\/i><\/p>\n
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2.<\/b> Then, run command to create source file and edit it with nano text editor:<\/p>\n
sudo nano \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/zabbly-incus-stable.sources<\/pre>\n
When it opens in the command line text editor, paste following lines:<\/p>\n
Enabled: yes\r\nTypes: deb\r\nURIs: https:\/\/pkgs.zabbly.com\/incus\/stable\r\nSuites: jammy<\/b>\r\nComponents: main\r\nArchitectures: amd64<\/b>\r\nSigned-By: \/etc\/apt\/keyrings\/zabbly.asc<\/pre>\n
NOTE: You may need to replace jammy<\/b> (for 22.04) with focal<\/b> for Ubuntu 20.04, or bookworm<\/b>\/bullseye<\/b> for Debian 12\/11. Also replace amd64<\/b> according to dpkg --print-architecture<\/code> command output.<\/b><\/p>\n
Finally, press Ctrl+S to save file and Ctrl+X to exit.
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3.<\/b> After properly adding the Zabbly repository and its key file, run the command to refresh system package cache:<\/p>\n
sudo apt update<\/pre>\n
It should output with line says something “Get:x https:\/\/pkgs.zabbly.com\/incus\/stable …”. Finally, you can install the incus container by running command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install incus<\/pre>\n
For choice, you may also install the incus-ui-canonical<\/code> package for the web UI support.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Step 2: setup incus<\/h3>\n
After installed the container, you may run command first to verify its version:<\/p>\n
incus version<\/pre>\n
Then, run command below and answer the questions to configure the daemon:<\/p>\n
sudo incus admin init<\/pre>\n
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To allow running incus commands without sudo privilege, you can add current user into incus-admin group:<\/p>\n
sudo gpasswd --add $USER incus-admin<\/pre>\n
Then, run newgrp incus-admin<\/code> in any terminal to interacts with Incus.<\/p>\n
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Step 3: Create\/Delete containers<\/h3>\n
To create a container, for example called mycontainer<\/code> using the Debian 12 image, run command:<\/p>\n
incus launch images:debian\/12 mycontainer<\/pre>\n
Then list instances:<\/p>\n
incus list<\/pre>\n
In the case, I can run command to get into bash shell for the Debian 12 container.<\/p>\n
incus exec mycontainer bash<\/pre>\n
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To delete the container instance mycontainer<\/code>, use command:<\/p>\n
incus delete mycontainer<\/pre>\n
Add -f<\/code> to force deleting running instance, and\/or add -i<\/code> to require user confirmation.<\/i><\/p>\n
Incus has many other command options, including cluster<\/code>, config<\/code>, start<\/code>, stop<\/code>, copy<\/code> and more. You may run incus --help<\/code> to list them, and run incus <command> --help<\/code> to get help for each command.<\/p>\n
For example, run the command below to tell how to create instances from images:<\/p>\n
incus create --help<\/pre>\n
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For more about how to use incus container, see the official Docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Uninstall incus container<\/h3>\n
To uninstall the container installed from Zabbly repository, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt remove --autoremove incus<\/pre>\n
You may also remove the Zabbly repository by deleting the source and key files via command:<\/p>\n
sudo rm \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/zabbly-incus-stable.sources \/etc\/apt\/keyrings\/zabbly.asc<\/pre>\n
Finally, refresh your system package cache via sudo apt update<\/code>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This simple tutorial shows how to install and use Incus container in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Incus is a free open-source system container and virtual machine manager developed by Linux Containers community. It supports images for a large number of Linux distributions. With it, you can manage your containers and VMs either with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2144,2145],"class_list":["post-45455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-container","tag-incus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}