Enroot
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What both publish
| Fact | Enroot | Incus |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | Standard hooks can provide NVIDIA GPU support and inject Mellanox host MOFED for InfiniBand HCA support into containers. | The documentation links to third-party tools and documents storage drivers including Btrfs, LVM, ZFS, Ceph, LINSTOR, and TrueNAS. |
| License | The project is released under the Apache License 2.0. | Incus is free software developed under the Apache 2 license. |
| Purpose | Enroot turns traditional container and OS images into unprivileged sandboxes. | Incus is a system container, application container, and virtual machine manager. |
Enroot plans
- Enroot (Apache-2.0)Free
Incus plans
- IncusFree
Pick Enroot if…
It suits Linux users in high-performance or virtualized environments who need portable, reproducible container sandboxes. Its limited isolation makes it unsuitable where stronger isolation is required.
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.