Incus

Incus is the virtualization manager for the Outpost — the live-fire Range and the Climb. It runs on Debian, and it was chosen deliberately over the general hypervisor for one reason: the Range’s workload is ephemeral. A practice fork is leased, cloned from a template, run, and recycled — over and over.

Incus fits that shape better than a general hypervisor: its ephemeral instances, project isolation, and copy-on-write clones make lease-clone-run-recycle cheap and fast. The Manor and the Annex, whose workloads are long-lived, run Proxmox VE instead. The Range’s practice forks are Incus system containers, rebuilt from templates and never backed up; only the durable Climb services — the forge and the tracker — are.