Multipass Wrapper

This repository contains a simple wrapper written in Python3.

Why was it created?

Vagrant is not native on Apple Silicon, so I had to switch to a different solution. Multipass was this solution, but I didn't like that there was no support for a configuration file, simular to the Vagrantfile in Vagrant. Which is also currently sadly not planed. So I decided to create simple a Python Wrapper, so I can configure my development environment in Multipass using a configfile.

How to use it?

msl.py init

Initialize the current directory and create a file named multipass.yaml

msl.py launch

Launch all instances defined in multipass.yaml.

msl.py stop

Stop all defined currently running Multipass instances.

msl.py delete

Delete all defined currently running Multipass instances.

msl.py mount

Mount all directories defined under the key mounts for each instance in multipass.yaml.

The subcommands launch,mount,stop and delete also accept, defined machines as arguments to limit. e.g:

msl.py launch primary

This launch command would create the instance primary, as long as she is defined in multipass.yaml Also delete and stop accept a argument called --all, when this is used the wrapper will attempt to stop or delete all machines currently running.

Multipass.yaml example

instances:
  primary:
     cpus: 2
     disk: 20G
     memory: 4G
     cloud-init: ./cloud-init.yaml
     mounts:
       path/on/the/host: path/where/to/mount/in/vm
       path/on/the/host2: path2/where/to/mount/in/vm

ToDo

-[ ] Write Tests