Incus Support

[fthorns]

With the recent changes around LXD and the fork of Incus, using lxd-dashboard with Incus would be awesome.

Unfortunately, Incus is slightly incompatible with LXD. However, regarding the container aspects of lxd-dashboard, the only crucial change seems to be the merge of the API endpoints /1.0/containers and /1.0/virtual-machines into /1.0/instances (see https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/news/2023_10_07_06_10.html).

These APIs are similar enough that a quick and dirty

sed -e 's%/1.0/containers%/1.0/instances%' -i /opt/lxd-dashboard-3.8.0/lxd-dashboard/backend/lxd/*.php

allows lxd-dashboard to work just fine with Incus containers. An stable implementation would of course require to check whether the backend is LXD or Incus and also cover VM aspects, which I haven't checked. However, I wanted to report that Incus support may not be overly complicated and help out anyone who needs a quick way to use lxd-dashboard for Incus containers.

[matthewalanpenning]

@fthorns
Before the fork on Incus, I was already working on porting this code to a Python-based project, moving away from PHP and created LXConsole, https://github.com/PenningLabs/lxconsole. When Incus started, I made sure to support both LXD and Incus with the new code base. I moved to Python to utilize libraries and security features and have made quite a few additions/improvements to the python-based project. This is where I have been making all new updates.

You are correct that both API endpoints are still very similar with the exception of instances, vms, and containers. That was the first change I needed to make to support Incus. There are a few additional differences too, like now support for OCI-based containers in addition to LXC.