Captain Stux on the Bridge - Docker, Containers, Incus, and Much More | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E017

Today's very special episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk brings the inimitable Stuart Espey, better known as @CaptStux of YouTube and TrueNAS Forum fame! Come find out what brought him and his company to TrueNAS back when it was still FreeNAS, his adventures with compute workloads on TrueNAS from jails to bhyve, all the way through to the latest Incus and LXC containerization, and hear about his most desired TrueNAS features from minor tweaks to massive overhauls. Follow Captain Stux on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaptStux X10SDV and Node 304 Build Report: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/build-report-node-304-x10sdv-tln4f-esxi-freenas-aio.57116/ Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/ Download TrueNAS for yourself: https://www.truenas.com/truenas-community-edition/ Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums: https://forums.truenas.com/ Check us out on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w 00:00 Intro - Welcome Captain Stux! 00:39 What Brought Captain Stux to TrueNAS? 03:36 Using TrueNAS for Compute Nodes 08:38 The Transition to Docker - How did Stux do it? 10:36 What started the Captain Stux YouTube voyage? 12:04 It's a Lot of Effort to make the How To Videos 13:08 Incus and LXC 15:20 Containers Help Remove Storage Bottlenecks 17:20 Containers avoid Unnecessary Caching 18:30 Where do VMs fit into your use case? 20:30 Containers vs Docker - subtle differences 23:21 Could "Incus Compose" be a thing? 24:19 Captain Stux's TrueNAS Wish List 24:57 The Small Stuff - Docker Networks, iXvolume Migration 27:32 The Middle Ground - Incus-powered VM Improvements 28:24 Dreaming Big - TrueNAS Hypervisor, Clustered ZFS 30:12 A TrueNAS SDK Image? 31:54 Wrapping Up - Vote for Feature Requests!