Bringing application containers to Incus

At last year's FOSDEM, I introduced the Incus project, what it was and what it would become over the following year. One of the main highlights and that which gathered the most interest was the support for OCI application containers.

It's now been a few months since Incus first gained support for running application containers, alongside its existing system container and virtual machine support. The work needed to get this done was actually pretty simple thanks to other projects like skopeo and umoci which Incus leverages to handle the OCI images.

In this presentation, we'll be looking at why we wanted to add OCI containers to Incus in the first place, how it was implemented, some of the differences from other implementations and what's planned next to make this even more useful.