Multipass 1.0

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Crossing the platforms: The Register checks in with Canonical's WSL alternative – Multipass
With the impending 1.0 release, The Register had a chat with Michal Sawicz, engineering manager at Canonical, about the platform and what the future might hold.
For those unfamiliar, Multipass is an app that is callable from the command line (we used PowerShell in our testing) or GUI which will download, launch and manage instances of Ubuntu. The 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS images are both there for download, with the latter, Bionic Beaver, being the default. Other images are apparently available, although a multipass find only showed the LTS editions, which is no bad thing.
The addition of the -cloud-init option is the app's party piece since it permits the Multipass VMs to be provisioned using YAML, just like VMs in the cloud. Creating Ubuntu instances in this way gives developers a quick and easy way to provision and test code locally.
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Canonical Releases Multipass 1.0 As "A Mini-Cloud On Your Workstation"
It was just last week that Canonical released Multipass 0.9 as their means of easily spinning up Ubuntu virtual machines across Linux / Windows / macOS. Today Multipass 1.0.0 made the surprisingly fast debut and marks their first stable release.
They self-describe Multipass 1.0 as "a mini-cloud on your workstation using native hypervisors of all the supported plaforms (Windows, macOS and Linux), it will give you an Ubuntu command line in just a click ("Open shell") or a simple multipass shell command, or even a keyboard shortcut."
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