Getting started

Your first five minutes with Multipass should give you a sense of how much fun it is to have a lightweight cloud handy, free of charge, on your workstation. Let’s launch a few LTS instances, list them, exec a command or script inside the instance, use cloud-init and clean up old instances.

Launch an instance (by default you get the current Ubuntu LTS) Copy to clipboard

Run commands in that instance, try running bash (logout or ctrl-d to quit) Copy to clipboard

Pass a cloud-init metadata file to an instance on launch see using cloud-init with multipass for more details Copy to clipboard

See your instances Copy to clipboard

Stop and start instances Copy to clipboard Copy to clipboard

Clean up what you don’t need Copy to clipboard Copy to clipboard

Find alternate images to launch with multipass Copy to clipboard

Get help Copy to clipboard Copy to clipboard