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title: Blog posts tagged "VM"
description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing
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url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/vm
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# Blog posts tagged "VM"

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

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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MAAS

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

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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Cloud and server

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

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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Cloud and server