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NAME

incant - an Incus frontend for declarative development environments

SYNOPSIS

incant [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

DESCRIPTION

incant is a command-line tool that provides a declarative way to manage Incus development environments. It uses a YAML configuration file to define instances, their properties, and provisioning steps.

OPTIONS

Enable verbose mode.
Path to the configuration file.

COMMANDS

Create an example configuration file in the current directory.
Start and provision an instance or all instances if no name is provided.
Provision an instance or all instances if no name is provided.
Open a shell into an instance. If no name is given and there is only one instance, use it.
Destroy an instance or all instances if no name is provided.
Show the generated configuration file.
List all instances defined in the configuration.

FILES

Default configuration file.

SEE ALSO

incus(1)

/usr/share/doc/incant/README.md.gz

https://github.com/lnussbaum/incant/

AUTHORS

August 2025.