Incus init - How to correctly pass the network configuration to ‘incus init --device ...’?

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I am trying to initialise a network card with incus using init. I have tried the following:

incus init images:ubuntu/noble/cloud mycont --config limits.cpu=1 --config limits.memory=1GiB --device root,size=10GiB --device eth0,nictype=bridged,parent=incusbrnic0,name=eth0

But It works with these options as a example:
–device eth0,ipv4.address=192.168.3.10

This syntax didn’t help either:
--device eth0 nic nictype=bridged parent=incusbrnic0

The only solution would be to set up the network bridge using an additional command such as:
incus config device add mycont eth0 nic nictype=bridged parent=incusbrnic0

Is there a solution for teaching ‘incus init’ to correctly apply my network configuration settings?

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find much about it in the documentation.

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I think that’s because the --device syntax only takes one property at a time, so you’ll need to pass it multiple times for the same device.

-d eth0,nictype=bridged -d eth0,parent=incusbrnic0 -d eth0,name=eth0

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That’s because some properties accept values with commas in them, so as convenient as it would be to allow multiple properties, we can’t actually reliably split them.