Incus as a Vagrant replacement?

[nickwalt (nick walton)]

There seems to be development of a declarative and idempotent process for building Incus environments on NixOS:
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Incus

Another link describing a NixOS and Incus pairing as synergistic:

NixOS incus host. Example /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

Hello there I made a post inside the ScottiBYTE Blog: " I think NixOS with incus is a good combo. Why? Because configurations in NixOS are so easy: all is stuck in one configuration file (/etc/nixos/configuration.nix). You don’t need to type commands (as in ubuntu server) and forget them later on. You can do the same with lxc container choosing NixOS ones, so you clone them and change some parameters in configuration.nix inside the container (hostname, Ip adress, etc.). NixOS is systemd ori…

It would be great to see Incus become a truly developer friendly virtualisation platform competitive with the likes of Podman, Distrobox, Toolbx and Vagrant.

I’m looking at Ivan Pepelnjak’s Netlab and it uses KVM/libvirt with Vagrant but cannot support LXC or Docker based network appliances unless separate solutions are built using Containerlab or Docker:
https://netlab.tools/

Incus would be a great fit for Netlab if an IncusFile for declarative builds was possible.

Incus + Netlab — no need for juggling kvm-libvirt-vagrant-docker-containerlab environments to support different network appliances:
https://netlab.tools/platforms/

NixOS seems like a great platform to implement a declarative Incus until such time as it becomes a native capability in Incus.