# Incus

Incus is a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

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## Security

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See [Security](security.md) for detailed information.

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## Project and community

Incus is free software and developed under the [Apache 2 license](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
It’s an open source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.

- [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
- [Contribute to the project](contributing.md)
- [Release announcements](https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/c/news/13)
- [Release tarballs](https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/)
- [Get support](support.md)
- [Watch tutorials and announcements on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@TheZabbly)
- [Discuss on IRC](https://web.libera.chat/#lxc) (see [Getting started with IRC](https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/getting-started-with-irc/11920) if needed)
- [Ask and answer questions on the forum](https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org)

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self
Getting Started </tutorial/first_steps>
General </general>
Client </client>
Server </server>
Instances </instances>
Storage </storage>
Networks </networks>
Images </images>
Projects </projects>
Clustering </clustering>
API </api>
Security </security>
Internals </internals>
External resources </external_resources>
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