Incus
6.8#3 in container enginesFree planFree planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted
VisitIncus vs runc
What both publish
| Fact | Incus | runc |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | The documentation links to third-party tools and documents storage drivers including Btrfs, LVM, ZFS, Ceph, LINSTOR, and TrueNAS. | The project documents using runc with Docker to prepare a root filesystem and with systemd or other process supervisors to manage containers. |
| License | Incus is free software developed under the Apache 2 license. | The code and documentation are released under the Apache 2.0 license. |
| Purpose | Incus is a system container, application container, and virtual machine manager. | runc is a command-line tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. |
Incus plans
- IncusFree
runc plans
No prices published.
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.
Pick runc if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.