Seems quite similar to LXC. Would be interested in seeing how the two compare.
Interesting.... I'm on Windows with WSL2 for most of my technical work. This looks the underlying technology is going to be pretty similar, except that I get something of a management console for multiple instances.
Now I also use applications with WSLg, so I wonder how far Multipass really goes or if its just for spinning up headless server like instances.
Is this like docker where one can run hundreds or like a full vm where one can run two or three? Mentions both in the article.
It is used for building snap packages since some years and it worked most times but was not fully stable yet. Few times I had issues where I needed to restart the multipass daemon or even the host system.
Over the past decade or so I used Vagrant for these things.
And Vagrant also integrates well for provisioning scripts.
Is there anything that I'm missing out if I stay with Vagrant?
Using this at work. Not bad, but on my Windows11 amd64 machine has issues starting, losing its assigned ip and freezes mid execution of network tasks. Haven't discovered why yet, but there is not much love lost between us.
If the thing is based on snap, it is a total no go for me.
how well does this work with gpu support for PyTorch for example? I am stuck in dependency management hell on my regular ubuntu box.
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Seems odd that the post mentions Docker and Virtualbox as alternatives, when it seems Vagrant would be the most similar comparison (and is more flexible than this, as it’s not constrained to Ubuntu hosts).