Yeah, I already maintain that base layer, and like being able to just run it on Debian, like I said. But, one of the awesome things about Incus is how easy it is to move instances around the LAN (or WAN, I suppose). I don't need super rigorous failovers for most things running at home, but just because it's so easy, I typically always do have a recent copy of every container I run (blogs, home automation servers, various web apps, etc) on a different machine, so when one machine goes down it's super easy to just start the equivalent instance on the other machine.
I run instances I need to interact with (e.g., do development in containers via SSH and remote-editors, with occasional Remote Desktop) on my very-fast Linux workstation — that also does other stuff like local development, web browsing, etc., but most instances that don't need power run on my old 56-core Xeon enterprise server (used, they are roughly as cheap as a Mac Mini).
Incus makes it super easy to move instances around, and from a skim of the announcement it looks like you could just put Incus OS on some machine you have lying around and drop it into an existing config like that with minimal effort.
I look forward to trying it out, even if my "main" Incus will probably remain on my actual manually-curated Linux desktop.
I run instances I need to interact with (e.g., do development in containers via SSH and remote-editors, with occasional Remote Desktop) on my very-fast Linux workstation — that also does other stuff like local development, web browsing, etc., but most instances that don't need power run on my old 56-core Xeon enterprise server (used, they are roughly as cheap as a Mac Mini).
Incus makes it super easy to move instances around, and from a skim of the announcement it looks like you could just put Incus OS on some machine you have lying around and drop it into an existing config like that with minimal effort.
I look forward to trying it out, even if my "main" Incus will probably remain on my actual manually-curated Linux desktop.