Multipass is great. With cloud-init, it is getting better.
With cloud-init we can customize our virtual machine at launch when we create them with Multipass.
First, create a cloud-init.yaml file with the content below:
ssh_authorized_keys:
- ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAAD........./FAC8DD2xi2pZZc3Dnv/6iE= xx@pf
Next, create the VM with the command below, and list the IP address:
$ multipass launch --name jj --cloud-init cloud-init.yaml
$ multipass list
Last, just ssh into the VM
$ ssh -l ubuntu 10.163.216.36
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| ssh into VM |