Installing Incus

Install the stable version of Incus ¹ to be consistent across all deployments.

• Add the repository

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings/
sudo curl -fsSL https://pkgs.zabbly.com/key.asc -o /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc
sudo sh -c 'cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbly-incus-stable.sources
Enabled: yes
Types: deb
URIs: https://pkgs.zabbly.com/incus/stable
Suites: $(. /etc/os-release && echo ${VERSION_CODENAME})
Components: main
Architectures: $(dpkg --print-architecture)
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc

EOF'

• Install Incus

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y incus

• Add user to Incus groups

sudo usermod -aG incus,incus-admin $USER

• log out and log back in to activate new groups. Or, use newgrp² to do so temporarily.

• Initialize incus

incus admin init

• https://blog.simos.info/running-oci-images-i-e-docker-directly-in-incus/#adding-the-docker-repository-to-incus

incus remote add docker https://docker.io --protocol=oci