Documentation

This reporsitory contains different documentation on various software engineering topics

1. About Multipass

Multipass summary

  This is a summary on how to create an instance of a virtual machine using multipass vm.

• In this session we are going to be talking about some basic commnand in multipass.
• It is also important you know the basic imortance of using a virtual machine.   Lets get started

To begins you need to install Multipass

• use the command sudo apt-get install multipass to install multipass.
• use multipass launch <name of instance> to launch an instance of the machine
• use multipass shell <instance> to open the shell of your instance on oyur virtual machine.
• use multipass list to see the current running machines or the state of oyur instances you created.
• If you whish to start an instance use multipass start followded by the name of the instance

  For example multipass start foo

• To stop the instance use multipass stop followed by the name of the instance

  For example multipass stop foo

• Now if i needed to tell you all the other commands that you can use in multipass it will not be able to enter into this page.
• To see the different commands you could use on multipass use the command multipass help

Importance of using multipass

• The following are the importance of using Multiopass

1. It helps you to run command that you are scare it might damage your computer.
2. It helps to run applications that are dangerous or harmful to your machine.

One of the disavantages of using multipass or virtual machines in general is that it consumes alot of memory as a result computers with less memory cannot run virtual machines with ease.

  Now lets talk about containers.

A container is an isolated environment of used to run an application and test all its neccessary dependencies and packet managers that can work with the application

A tool used to create a container is called docker . Lets now learn some of the commands use in creating containers using socker.

For more resources on how to use multipass you can visit the following site

[How to use multipass] (https://multipass.run/)

• The command multipass exec docker-vm --docker ps is used to run a container from your virtual machine on your real machine.

  Notice that the syntax to run any command on multipass virtual machine is multipass exec <name of vm> --command

• docker run hello-world is used to run the container hello-world either on you virtual machine or on your real machine depending o where you run the command.

• Oh don't forget docker ps is used to see the processing state of your container.

• To see the different images on your container use docker images

  [For more information about docker visit the following site] (https://www.docker.com/resources/what-container/)

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