Multipass - VMs on demand
Multipass | Canonical
Multipass is a CLI to launch and manage VMs on Windows, Mac and Linux that simulates a cloud environment with support for cloud-init. Get Ubuntu on-demand with clean integration to your IDE and version control on your native platform.
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I was writing a cloud-init (https://cloud-init.io/) file to setup some cloud VMs and needed a way to test it locally. Found Multipass from canonical. Seems to work well.
multipass
Usage: Program Files\Multipass\bin\multipass.exe [options] <command>
Create, control and connect to Ubuntu instances.
This is a command line utility for multipass, a
service that manages Ubuntu instances.
Options:
-?, -h, --help Displays help on commandline options
-v, --verbose Increase logging verbosity. Repeat the 'v' in the short
option for more detail. Maximum verbosity is obtained with 4
(or more) v's, i.e. -vvvv.
Available commands:
alias Create an alias
aliases List available aliases
authenticate Authenticate client
clone Clone an instance
delete Delete instances and snapshots
exec Run a command on an instance
find Display available images to create instances from
get Get a configuration setting
help Display help about a command
info Display information about instances or snapshots
launch Create and start an Ubuntu instance
list List all available instances or snapshots
mount Mount a local directory in the instance
networks List available network interfaces
prefer Switch the current alias context
purge Purge all deleted instances permanently
recover Recover deleted instances
restart Restart instances
restore Restore an instance from a snapshot
set Set a configuration setting
shell Open a shell on an instance
snapshot Take a snapshot of an instance
start Start instances
stop Stop running instances
suspend Suspend running instances
transfer Transfer files between the host and instances
umount Unmount a directory from an instance
unalias Remove aliases
version Show version details