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Rapid Development Environments With Incus

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Manage development containers with Incus

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Usage as a flake

Add blincus to your flake.nix:

{
  inputs.blincus.url = "https://flakehub.com/f/ublue-os/blincus/*.tar.gz";

  outputs = { self, blincus }: {
    # Use in your outputs
  };
}

Reminders / Notes

• todo add check for genisoimage/mkisofs sudo ln -s /usr/bin/genisoimage mkisofs

blincus's Issues

feature request: template duplication wizard

add blincus template copy or similar command that copies an existing template and creates the appropriate configs in config.ini

Errors due to BLINCUSUSER and other variables not getting replaced

Ive been getting some errors when trying to execute shells inside my blincus-managed incus containers because the ~/.config/blincus/templates didnt get customized with my user configurations upon install. Maybe the "personalize" function on initialize.sh should be uncommented? Or it should be moved to the installation script instead of the main blincus one

don't overwrite existing scripts/templates on (re)install

don't overwrite existing scripts/templates on (re)install

feature request: custom init script

scripts at ~/.config/blincus/{distro} are already mounted at /opt/scripts

Add a check for an "init.sh" script in that folder in the cloud-init that executes it if it exists. This will simplify provisioning.

Alternatively, add a flag like -s --startup that specifies the name of a startup script.

template personalize needs a confirmation that it ran

Error: user doesn't exist or user entry does not contain all the required fields

Installed blincus on my Bluefin laptop by running the install script in the git repo, then tried to create a debian image:

❯ blincus --version
0.3.2

❯ blincus launch myst -t debian
Using debian template
Creating myst
Starting instance myst                      
Waiting for cloud init...                                                                               
/usr/bin/cloud-init
....................................
status: done
Blincus ID: c96c30ae569f420f9b35404716aeb1a9                                  
Mounting home directory
Device myhomedir added to myst
Allowing X sharing:
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
Instance myst ready
Run blincus shell myst to enter

blincus on  main took 30s 
❯ blincus shell myst
su: user bronson does not exist or the user entry does not contain all the required fields

Dependency Dashboard

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• chore(deps): update dependency @astrojs/starlight to ^0.26.0
• chore(deps): update dependency astro to v4.14.3
• chore(deps): update dependency sharp to ^0.33.0
• chore(deps): update actions/checkout action to v4
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Detected dependencies

devcontainer

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

dockerfile

Dockerfile

• httpd 2.4

github-actions

.github/workflows/flakehub-publish-tagged.yml

• actions/checkout v3

npm

site/package.json

• @astrojs/starlight ^0.15.0
• astro ^4.0.1
• sharp ^0.32.5

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uninstaller

Complete the uninstaller

Build

Add a build command driving a simple Distrobuilder workflow with opinions and sane defaults