I’d like to introduce Incant (GitHub, PyPI). Incant is a frontend for Incus that provides a declarative way to define and manage development environments. It simplifies the creation, configuration, and provisioning of Incus instances using YAML-based configuration files.
In short, you can create an incant.yaml file with:
instances:
my-instance:
image: images:debian/12
vm: false # use a container, not a KVM virtual machine
provision:
- echo "Hello, World!"
- apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl
Then run incant up, and let Incant interact with Incus to orchestrate the provisioning of your instance.
More complex examples are provided on GitHub, including with using Mako or Jinja2 to script parts of the configuration file.
As the name suggests, Incant is intended as an Incus-based replacement for Vagrant. There are more details about how it compares in the README.md.
At this stage this is mostly a proof of concept. Feedback (both positive and negative) and pull requests, are welcomed!