Canonical Multipass provider for DevPod

Prerequisites

• Install Multipass
• Install DevPod

Getting started

The provider is available for auto-installation using DevPod CLI

devpod provider add minhio/devpod-provider-multipass
devpod provider use minhio/devpod-provider-multipass

Or the desktop app

Customize the Multipass Instance

This provider has the following options

NAME	REQUIRED	DESCRIPTION	DEFAULT
MULTIPASS_PATH	true	Path to multipass binary.	multipass
MULTIPASS_IMAGE	true	Image to launch.	lts
MULTIPASS_CPUS	true	Number of CPUs to allocate.	2
MULTIPASS_DISK_SIZE	true	Disk space to allocate.	40G
MULTIPASS_MEMORY	true	Amount of memory to allocate.	4G
MULTIPASS_MOUNTS	false	Comma separated list of mounts.

See https://multipass.run/docs/launch-command for more detailed description of options.

MULTIPASS_MOUNTS is a comma separated list of /absolute/local/path->/instance/path.

• Relative instance path will be mounted in the /home/devpod directory.
• If instance path is omitted, the mount point will be the same as the local path. With the exception of windows, where it will be mounted in /home/devpod.

Examples:

• /Users/minh/.aws->/home/devpod/.aws: local path /Users/minh/.aws mounts to instance path /home/devpod/.aws
  • /Users/minh/.aws->.aws is the same as above
• /Users/minh: local path /Users/minh mounts to instance path /Users/minh
• C:\Users\minh: local path C:\Users\minh mounts to instance path /home/devpod/C:/Users/minh

The MULTIPASS_MOUNTS option enable users to mount local path to devcontainer via the multipass instance.

For example, to mount user's local /Users/minh/.aws directory to the devcontainer:

• Set MULTIPASS_MOUNTS=/Users/minh/.aws->/home/devpod/.aws
• Configure devcontainer mounts

{
    "name": "Ubuntu",
    "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:jammy",
    "mounts": [
        "source=/home/devpod/.aws,target=/home/vscode/.aws,type=bind,consistency=cached"
    ]
}