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Incus vs runhcs

Incus

linuxcontainers.org

runhcs

github.com

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FigureIncusrunhcs
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYesYes
macOSYes—
LinuxYes—
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published10
Spec score · Container Engines8.7 (#3)5.3 (#31)

Plans

Incus

  • IncusFree

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runhcs

No plans published.

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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.

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runhcs

runhcs has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

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