[ropyeett]

Depends what kind of commercial offerings you're considering.

If you're looking at virtualization like VMWare, Incus can run a cluster on any hardware you want with various storage and network options, letting you run your VMs and even share the cluster with different teams/people.

But unlike VMWare ESXi, Incus is software you install on a normal Linux system instead of its own OS. It also doesn't come with an official web interface though there are some options for that too.

It's a lot lighter weight than something complex like OpenStack or Kubernetes, it doesn't need dedicated infrastructure machines, the control plane is automatically distributed.

It's more similar than a Proxmox or XCP but those feel less flexible to me. But I also haven't played with them too much recently.

And of course, this is Open Source, so something like what's going on with VMWare licensing can't really happen here, but same is true for any OSS option.

[tssva]

> It also doesn't come with an official web interface though there are some options for that too.

Before the fork LXD had added a web ui. Did Incus remove it?

[stgraber]

The LXD UI is a separate project from LXD, it's at https://github.com/canonical/lxd-ui

It's one of the UI options you can use on top of Incus and a rebranded version of it is what we're making available as part of our online demo.

[tssva]

I guess the confusion was because Canonical packages it as part of their LXD snap.

[anizan]

There's a web ui link on bottom of introduction page https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/