a tiny interactive script to create Ubuntu VMs with multipass

multipass-create.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
import subprocess

full_params = ['multipass', 'launch']

name = input('name: ')
if name:
    full_params.extend(['--name', name])

version = input('version: ')
if version:
    full_params.append(version)

cpu_cores = input('cores (def 4): ')
full_params.append('-c')
if cpu_cores:
    full_params.append(cpu_cores)
else:
    full_params.append('4')

ram = input('ram (in gb, def 4gb): ')
full_params.append('-m')
if ram:
    full_params.append(ram + 'gb')
else:
    full_params.append('4gb')

disk_space = input('disk space (in gb, def 20gb): ')
full_params.append('-d')
if disk_space:
    full_params.append(disk_space + 'G')
else:
    full_params.append('20G')

#multipass launch --name builder 18.04 -c 8 -m 8gb -d 40G
subprocess.run(full_params)