Incus vs Moby
Incus
linuxcontainers.orgMoby
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| Figure | Incus | Moby |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Container Engines | 8.7 (#3) | 7.3 (#22) |
| Commercial support | The Incus project says commercial support is available from Zabbly. | Moby releases are supported by maintainers, the community and users on a best-efforts basis only. |
| License | Incus is free software developed under the Apache 2 license. | Moby is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. |
| Purpose | Incus is a system container, application container, and virtual machine manager. | Moby is an open framework created by Docker for assembling specialized container systems from standard components. |
| Security | The project highlights unprivileged containers, resource restrictions, and authentication as security measures. | The project says it provides secure defaults without compromising usability. |
| Support | Community support is available through the Linux Containers forum, and Zabbly provides commercial support for users of its Debian or Ubuntu packages. | Releases receive best-effort support from maintainers, the community, and users; Moby is not intended to provide commercial support. |
| What it does | Incus is a system container, application container, and virtual machine manager. | Moby is an open framework created by Docker for assembling specialized container systems. |
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In their own words
Incus
Incus is free software for managing system containers, application containers, and virtual machines. Instances can share storage and networking, and administrators can manage them through a command-line tool, REST API, or third-party integrations. The software supports snapshots, backup and recovery, migration, configurable storage pools and networks, and resource controls. The project describes its API as suitable for use from a laptop through clusters of thousands of compute nodes. Documented integrations include Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer, Distrobuilder, GARM, Kubernetes Cluster API, and Incant. The daemon runs on Linux; client applications are available for Windows and macOS, with FreeBSD client packages also listed. Upstream does not directly provide packages, so installation is through Linux distributions, third-party repositories, or source. Incus is developed under the Apache 2 license. Containers are unprivileged by default, but access to the Unix socket grants full control, so it should be limited to trusted users. The 6.0 LTS release is supported until June 2029; feature releases are normally supported until the next release.