Buildah
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VisitBuildah vs Incus
What both publish
| Fact | Buildah | Incus |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Buildah is a command-line tool for building OCI container images. | Incus is a system container, application container, and virtual machine manager. |
| Support | The project site points users to tutorials, releases, and a mailing list; it describes maintainers as available to answer Buildah questions on the list. | Community support is available through the Linux Containers forum, and Zabbly provides commercial support for users of its Debian or Ubuntu packages. |
Buildah plans
- BuildahFree
Incus plans
- IncusFree
Pick Buildah if…
Buildah suits Linux users who need to build and manage container images from the command line, including rootless builds. It is also relevant to tool developers who want to vendor its Go API.
Pick Incus if…
Incus suits developers and operators managing container or virtual-machine workloads who want shared storage and networking, API access and integration options. Its daemon requires Linux, even though client applications are available on other platforms.