Deep Dive into Incus and Containers in TrueNAS with Stéphane Graber | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E022

On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris are joined by Stéphane Graber, project leader of the Incus container project, coming to the latest release of TrueNAS 25.04 this Tuesday! Join us as we dig deep into the history of the Incus container project, from its unlikely inception and first use case, the story of the LXD fork and license shift, future plans for Incus and TrueNAS, and get yourself ready for your upgrade to 25.04 starting next week! Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Download TrueNAS for yourself: https://www.truenas.com/truenas-community-edition/ Check out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances: https://www.truenas.com/truenas-enterprise/ Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums: https://forums.truenas.com/ Watch Stéphane's video about Incus and TrueNAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrQ1RWKZuI Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 2 image is CC BY-SA 4.0 Jolien Holthuis from ubports.com https://ubports.com/ https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/ Listen to T3 on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w 00:00 Intro 00:30 Stéphane Graber - Founder of Incus 01:24 Introductions and Background 03:40 Stéphane's Linux Distro Journey 05:04 Life before Incus 07:33 Becoming the Master of the Ubuntu-verse 09:05 The Beginning of Containers and LXC 11:15 Ubuntu Phone was one of the first LXC use cases 13:27 Ubuntu Phone also had proof-of-concept Snap packages? 14:20 The Phone Died so that LXC and Snap Could Live 15:48 Ubuntu Phone did WebApps before it was cool 17:30 When did you decide to add VMs with QEMU to Incus? 19:26 Incus has its own ZFS Storage Driver 22:00 Building a Better Libvirt 24:36 Any unique ZFS features that benefit Incus? 28:15 What kind of storage is getting most used by Incus? 30:02 LXD to Incus - History of the Fork? 34:17 LXD Gets Moved under the Canonical Organization 35:06 After the Fork 36:19 Canonical Changes their License 40:35 External Contributors to Incus 43:46 Incus 6.0 LTS is in TrueNAS 25.04 ... What's Next? 45:47 Incus is still using KVM and QEMU 47:36 Future Roadmap and "IncusOS" 49:15 Migrating from VMware to Incus 51:09 IncusOS - An Immutable Linux Distro 56:28 How can the TrueNAS Community help Collaborate? 58:57 Report TrueNAS bugs to TrueNAS, Incus bugs to Incus 1:02:10 Outro