The multipass find command without any argument will list the images and blueprints Multipass can use to run instances with multipass launch on your system and associated version information. For example:
$ multipass find
Image Aliases Version Description
core core16 20200818 Ubuntu Core 16
core18 20211124 Ubuntu Core 18
core20 20230119 Ubuntu Core 20
core22 20230717 Ubuntu Core 22
20.04 focal 20240129.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
22.04 jammy,lts 20240126 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
23.10 mantic 20240206 Ubuntu 23.10
daily:24.04 noble,devel 20240129 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
appliance:adguard-home 20200812 Ubuntu AdGuard Home Appliance
appliance:mosquitto 20200812 Ubuntu Mosquitto Appliance
appliance:nextcloud 20200812 Ubuntu Nextcloud Appliance
appliance:openhab 20200812 Ubuntu openHAB Home Appliance
appliance:plexmediaserver 20200812 Ubuntu Plex Media Server Appliance
Blueprint Aliases Version Description
anbox-cloud-appliance latest Anbox Cloud Appliance
charm-dev latest A development and testing environment for charmers
docker 0.4 A Docker environment with Portainer and related tools
jellyfin latest Jellyfin is a Free Software Media System that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media.
minikube latest minikube is local Kubernetes
ros-noetic 0.1 A development and testing environment for ROS Noetic.
ros2-humble 0.1 A development and testing environment for ROS 2 Humble.
The output is separated in two sections, one for the images and other for the blueprints. Restricting the output to only one of these two categories can be done, respectively, with the --only-images and --only-blueprints options.
Next to each name, launch aliases, version information and a brief description is shown. Launching an image using its name or its alias gives the same result. For exaxmple, multipass launch 23.10andmultipass launch manticwill launch the same image. The aliasesltsanddevel` are dynamic, that is, they change the image they alias from time to time, depending on the Ubuntu release.
Values of the alias can be:
default- the default image on that remote,lts- the latest Long Term Support image,devel- the latest development series image (only ondaily:),<codename>- the code name of a Ubuntu series,<c>- the first letter of the code name,<XX.YY>- the version number of a series.
The list of available images and blueprints is updated periodically. The option --force-update forces an immediate update of the list from the servers, before showing the output.
The option --show-unsupported includes in the list old Ubuntu images, which were available at some point but are not anymore supported. This means that some features of Multipass might now work on these images and no user support is given. However, they are still available for testing.
The command also supports searching through available images. For example,
$ multipass find mantic
Image Aliases Version Description
mantic 20240206 Ubuntu 23.10
daily:mantic 20240206 Ubuntu 23.10
The full multipass help find output explains the available options:
$ multipass help find
Usage: multipass find [options] [<remote:>][<string>]
Lists available images matching <string> for creating instances from.
With no search string, lists all aliases for supported Ubuntu releases.
Options:
-h, --help Displays help on commandline options
-v, --verbose Increase logging verbosity. Repeat the 'v' in the short
option for more detail. Maximum verbosity is obtained with
4 (or more) v's, i.e. -vvvv.
--show-unsupported Show unsupported cloud images as well
--only-images Show only images
--only-blueprints Show only blueprints
--format <format> Output list in the requested format.
Valid formats are: table (default), json, csv and yaml
--force-update Force the image information to update from the network
Arguments:
string An optional value to search for in [<remote:>]<string>
format, where <remote> can be either ‘release’ or ‘daily’.
If <remote> is omitted, it will search ‘release‘ first,
and if no matches are found, it will then search ‘daily‘.
<string> can be a partial image hash or an Ubuntu release
version, codename or alias.
