Hi all,

The Muiltipass team is happy to announce the beta release of a completely new project: Multipass.

What is Multipass?

Multipass is a service that manages virtual machine instances running Ubuntu. It uses images from cloud-images and QEMU/KVM as the backend to provide easy access to a whole range of Ubuntu instances. The client command line is kept similar to LXD’s to keep your muscle memory happy.

Features

Fetch and cache images from cloud-images

Periodically refresh downloaded images ensuring you always have the freshest image installed

Launch instances of any supported Ubuntu version

Create instances with custom disk size / memory size / cpu count

Easily connect to a shell prompt inside the instance or execute commands as part of your workflow

Support cloud-init user-data for instance customization

for instance customization Mount data from the host inside instances

Binaries

A classically-confined snap for amd64 is published in the beta channel. It can be installed with the following command on any snap-enabled system:

sudo snap install multipass --beta --classic

To see the full list of commands available with multipass type:

multipass help

See our README for more details.

Source

Multipass is licensed under GPLv3 and is available on GitHub.

Get involved

Please file issues and pull requests on GitHub. This Hub has a multipass category for any discussions or suggestions as well.