Multipass
Mindmap
See the mindmap in mindomo
What?
Single command, almost no config
Easy to install
Configurable with cloud-init
For prototyping cloud instances locally
Why?
Make your development environment as similar as the production one
Safe place to make mistakes
Isolated development environment
Already familiar with Ubuntu Linux
It’s fun :D, at least for me to learn about VM and container
How?
Launch a vm
Start a vm as easy as
multipass launch <vm_name>
You can also alocate some cpu -c, disk -d and the memory -m
multipass launch -c 2 -d 30G -m 2G --name devbox "21.04"
The commmand above will create a vm with 2 cpu, 30G of storage disk and 2G of memory, name devbox and ubuntu image 21.04
List all vms
multipass list
Stop a vm
multipass stop devbox
Start a vm
multipass start devbox
SSH-ing into the vm
multipass shell devbox
What if you want to use the ordinary ssh command tu ssh to the vm?
yes, could use cloud-init for that, I put the step by step here
Share volume between host and vm
Yes. you can share file easily between host and vm, I use this for example restoring a MySQL database to a vm
multipass mount <path_on_host> <vm_name>:<destination_path_inside_vm>
Example
multipass mount . devbox:~/codes
The command above will share all files inside current directory on host to the ~/codes directory inside the devbox vm.
Troubleshoot
When this message occur “A stop job is running for Snap daemon on Ubuntu…” try this method for temporary solution https://jaylinwu.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/a-stop-job-is-running-for-snap-daemon-on-ubuntu-soulution-and-thinking/
What next?
Installing some apps such as MySQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, could be take a lot of time if you do it over and over again with several vms, so Ansible come to the rescue, this is an example of my personal ansible playbook, and will add more later.