Playlist "All Systems Go! 2026"
Building IncusOS
[IncusOS](https://linuxcontainers.org/incus-os) is an immutable OS based on Debian 13 and built using mkosi. It's designed to be as secure as possible, actively relying on both UEFI Secure Boot and a TPM 2.0 module to provide strong boot security as well as encryption at rest through LUKS+TPM.
Its whole purpose is to provide an ideal environment for running [Incus](https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/) with a focus on running on bare metal with pretty complex local and remote storage as well as a variety of networking options.
Unlike most other Linux systems, IncusOS doesn't provide any local or remote shell access to the system. Instead it's entirely API driven with its management API being available through the Incus API itself.
That management API allows for system configuration, update management, installation of additional components (systemd system extensions), configuring a variety of system services, ... But it also needs to handle a variety of fallback and recovery/patching mechanisms for when something goes wrong.
This talk will cover why we built IncusOS, how we built it, its current state and what we're working towards in the near future.
[Incus](https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/) is a modern container and virtual machine manager with native support for both system and application containers as well as virtual machines. It's designed to behave just like a private cloud, but one that you can run on your laptop or Raspberry Pi as well as on clusters of hundreds or thousands of servers.
It's got support for a wide variety of local and remote storage options as well as both software defined and traditional networking. It has built-in clustering allowing for hundreds of servers to act as one with a consistent API and distributed database providing high availability and automated recovery.
Incus is widely available through packages in most Linux distributions with IncusOS providing another method of deployment particularly targeted to those who don't want to have to manage yet another Linux system or those who want to perform large scale deployments with known identical systems.
IncusOS can be deployed and managed at scale through [Operations Center](https://github.com/futurfusion/operations-center), allowing for hundreds of clusters to be deployed, updated and tracked in one place.
Incus, IncusOS, Operations Center and generally everything related to Incus is Open Source and released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/