Launching Ubuntu instances with Multipass

Multipass is an awesome utility that allows you to quickly create Ubuntu virtual machine instances for testing. In this video, I show how to install and use it.

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Multipass Commands

Launch an instance (creates LTS instance by default)
 multipass launch --name my-ubuntu-instance
List multipass instances
 multipass list
Delete an instance
 multipass delete my-ubuntu-instance
Purge deleted instances
 multipass purge
Start/Stop multipass instance
 multipass {start,stop} my-ubuntu-instance
multipass help
 multipass help

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