Self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS

(dataswamp.org)

35 points | by psxuaw a day ago ago

11 comments

  • astralkraft 21 hours ago ago

    IncusOS is amazing. Since K8s envelopes my day job, I rarely get to test out things like this. If cloud on-prem continues taking off the way it has in the last year, this sort of deployment will be ideal.

    Also, I loathe Proxmox. With Proxmox, you are one bad upgrade away from disaster at every turn.

    • roughly 15 hours ago ago

      Talos is another good look. I haven’t checked incus specifically, but Talos is a beautiful immutable OS for building a k8s cluster. Subs in for ProxMox if you don’t need VMs or Pi’s on the homelab.

      • astralkraft 14 hours ago ago

        I think you're confusing this. Talos is kubernetes. It can only be as good or as bad as Kubernetes. This is different. A complete rethink of immutable infrastructure with a decade of additional hindsight. I switched from Talos to OKD. I honestly don't miss Talos, but would like to be done with k8s altogether.

        • 12 hours ago ago
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        • bzmrgonz 8 hours ago ago

          Or is it? Talos is coming up with Talos hypervisor in December.

        • roughly 12 hours ago ago

          Re-reading your comment, realize I’d missed your point. You’re right, I’ll take a look at Incus. I also appreciate the pointer to OKD - until the future arrives, it’s nice to have a more pleasant present, too.

  • bzmrgonz 8 hours ago ago

    Thank you for this writeup, I think your setup deserves another writeup, but form the sre/gitops perspective. I've been thinking about building something similar, but using the lighthouse patter. One git repository on GitHub or gitea to prop up origin-vps(forgejo+harbor+warpgate+headscale), which will serve as the source of truth for infrastructure at any given site.

  • roughly 15 hours ago ago

    The name “data swamp” just absolutely got me. I love it.

  • abrookewood a day ago ago

    I've used Incus, but not Incus OS. Sounds pretty appealing though - immutable OS, A/B updates & very locked down.

  • jazzyjackson 13 hours ago ago

    Really good write up thank you

  • Havoc 21 hours ago ago

    Seems like a very sophisticated setup.