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# Blog posts tagged *"VM"*

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[Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez](https://canonical.com/blog/author/edu-ap)

24 June 2020

### [MAAS 2.8 – new features](https://canonical.com/blog/maas-2-8-new-features)

MAAS

Ubuntu tech blog

What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL database If you know what you want, go to maas.io/install, otherwise let’s dive in and explore these further. Virtual machines (VMs) with LXD (Beta) MAAS 2.8 can set up L XD-based VM ...

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[Guest](https://canonical.com/blog/author/guest)

27 July 2018

### [Kata Containers – now available in the Snap Store](https://canonical.com/blog/kata-containers-now-available-in-the-snap-store)

Cloud and server

Ubuntu tech blog

Guest blog by Julio Montes, Linux Software Engineer at Intel Kata Containers is now available as a Snap and to install from the Snap Store. Kata Containers is a lightweight, fast to boot, virtual machine (VM) designed to provide the speed of containers and the isolation of VMs. Inside the VMs, the processes run on ...

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[Joshua Powers](https://canonical.com/blog/author/powersj)

2 April 2018

### [Using cloud-init with Multipass](https://canonical.com/blog/using-cloud-init-with-multipass)

Cloud and server

Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog cloud-init + Multipass Multipass is a quick and easy way to launch virtual machine instances running Ubuntu. Cloud-init is the standard for customizing cloud instances and now Multipass can also make use of cloud-init to customize an instance during launch. Below is an example of lau ...

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