Incus Training

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Incus Training

Build a private cloud with Incus, from your first container

• 8 modules
• 32 lessons
• 10h

Start Lesson: Incus: the system container and VM manager

Recommended before you start: Linux

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1. 01 Overview 0 / 1

   • lesson Incus: the system container and VM manager 20 min
2. 02 Getting started with Incus 0 / 3

   • lesson Incus vs Docker: the differences, and when to choose which 10 min
   • lesson Installing Incus on Debian or Ubuntu (the Zabbly repository) 15 min
   • lesson First steps with Incus: launching containers and VMs 15 min
3. 03 Running Incus day to day 0 / 10

   • lesson Managing containers and VMs with Incus 35 min
   • lesson Running Docker (OCI) containers with Incus 10 min
   • lesson Incus networking: bridge, NAT and exposing services 15 min
   • lesson Managing storage with Incus: pools and volumes 15 min
   • lesson Incus profiles and projects: industrialise and compartmentalise 10 min
   • lesson GPU in Incus: passing an NVIDIA card to a container or a VM 10 min
   • lesson Administering remote Incus servers 15 min
   • lesson Automating Incus image builds 30 min
   • lesson Securing Incus: unprivileged containers, limits and restricted projects 10 min
   • lesson Debugging an Incus VM stuck at boot (emergency mode) 35 min
4. 04 Incus OS, the immutable base 0 / 4

   • lesson Incus OS: the immutable OS dedicated to Incus 35 min
   • lesson Incus OS: A/B updates and rollback 25 min
   • lesson Incus OS: connecting nodes to a Tailscale tailnet 20 min
   • lesson Incus OS: backup and monitoring without a shell 20 min
5. 05 Clustering and high availability 0 / 4

   • lesson Incus cluster: multi-node high availability 25 min
   • lesson Incus OS cluster: roles, quorum and high availability 25 min
   • lesson Extending an Incus OS cluster: workers and remote nodes 20 min
   • lesson Shared CephFS storage for an Incus OS cluster 20 min
6. 06 Private cloud (IaaS) 0 / 5

   • lesson OVN in Incus: virtual networks (VPCs) and load balancers 15 min
   • lesson Incus network ACLs: segmenting like Security Groups 15 min
   • lesson Multi-tenant private cloud with Incus: projects, quotas and peering 15 min
   • lesson Operations Center: deploy and drive an Incus OS fleet 25 min
   • lesson Terraform: deploy an Incus three-tier stack (VPC, ACLs, load balancer) 15 min
7. 07 Migrating to Incus 0 / 3

   • lesson Migration Manager: from VMware to Incus 15 min
   • lesson Migrating from LXD to Incus with lxd-to-incus 15 min
   • lesson Importing a VM or a physical machine with incus-migrate 15 min
8. 08 Infrastructure as Code 0 / 2

   • lesson Managing Incus with Terraform (the lxc/incus provider) 20 min
   • lesson Managing Incus with Ansible: connection plugin and provisioning 20 min

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