Accessing ports, transferring file hierarchies, and more

[robogeek]

I was going to feature Multipass in the latest revision of my book, but after wasting a couple days trying to get things to work I'm giving up and will look for another solution.

What do you mean you cannot expose a port from inside a Multipass instance? Yeah, I understand there is a trick to do with using SSH for port forwarding. Users of Multipass shouldn't have to do that. They should be able to specify -p ##:## as can be done with Docker.

I wanted to transfer in a directory hierarchy. But the transfer command does not take a -r flag. WTF?

What about mounting a single file rather than mounting a directory. You can mount a single file using Docker. e.g. If the image has MySQL running, and you want to mount the /etc/mysql/my.cnf so you can control the configuration from outside the container.

And - MySQL - since instances are ephemeral, it's necessary to keep the database directory outside the container. The obvious solution would be to mount a directory into /var/lib/mysql. But I wasted a few hours trying to get that to work before giving up.

There are so many deficiencies with Multipass that I'm surprised y'all had the bravery to give it a 1.0 version number.

[Saviq]

Hi @robogeek, thanks for giving it a try, we have an issue up for at least one of your requests (#309). We'll consider your other points for sure. There are things missing, sure, but that's just software, we're working on it continuously.

One thing that I'm most interested in, though, is your trouble with getting /var/lib/mysql mounted in, could you please expand?

[Saviq]

Closing for lack of activity.