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Project repository <https://github.com/lxc/incus>
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Image server <https://images.linuxcontainers.org>
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# Third party tools and integrations
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Below are a list of common operations tools which feature Incus support, either natively or through a plugin.
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## Terraform / OpenTofu
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[Terraform](https://www.terraform.io) and [OpenTofu](https://opentofu.org) are infrastructure as code tools which focus on creating the infrastructure itself.
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For Incus, this means the ability to create projects, profiles, networks, storage volumes and of course instances.
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In most cases, one will then use Ansible to deploy the workloads
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themselves once the instances and everything else they need as been put in place.
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The integration with Incus is done through a [dedicated provider](https://github.com/lxc/terraform-provider-incus).
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## Ansible
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[Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) is an infrastructure as code tool with particular focus on software provisioning and configuration management.
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It does most of its work by first connecting to the system that it's deploying software on.
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To do that, it can connect over SSH and a variety of other protocols, one of which is [Incus](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/incus_connection.html).
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That allows for easily deploying software inside of Incus instances without needing to first setup SSH.
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## Packer
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[Packer](https://www.packer.io) is a tool to generate custom OS images across a wide variety of platforms.
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A [plugin](https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/bketelsen/incus) exists that allows Packer to generate Incus images directly.
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## Distrobuilder
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[Distrobuilder](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder) is an image building tool most known for producing the official LXC and Incus images.
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It consumes YAML definitions for its images and generates LXC container images as well as Incus container and VM images.
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The focus of Distrobuilder is in producing clean images from scratch, as opposed to repacking existing images.
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## GARM
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[GARM](https://github.com/cloudbase/garm) is the Github Actions Runner Manager which allows for running self-hosted Github runners.
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It supports a variety of providers for those runners, including [Incus](https://github.com/cloudbase/garm-provider-incus).
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