Devboxes on Demand: Isolated VMs on a Single Server With Incus and Ansible

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sooner or later, every IT team gets the same request:

“Can you give me a Linux machine to work on? Something powerful, for a few weeks.”

That request kept coming, and the default answer was a virtual machine in the cloud. When we did the maths, it turned out to be cheaper to rent one oversized server and run our own virtual machines on top of it. And since we were going to do it more than once, we automated the whole process so it could be repeated as many times as needed.

lxd on Raúl Pastor

Devboxes on Demand: Isolated VMs on a Single Server With Incus and Ansible