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Manage instances

The following guides provide step-by-step instructions on how to manage Multipass instances.

Multipass allows you to create Ubuntu instances with a single command. As your needs grow, you can modify and customise instances via different options or with the use of cloud-init files: <!--- This line added by @nielsenjared -->

• Create an instance
• Modify an instance
• Launch customized instances with Multipass and cloud-init
• Use an instance
• Use the primary instance
• Use instance command aliases
• Share data with an instance
• Remove an instance
• Add a network to an existing instance
• Configure static IPs
• {ref}how-to-guides-manage-instances-use-a-blueprint
• {ref}how-to-guides-manage-instances-use-the-docker-blueprint
• Run a Docker container in Multipass

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