How to manage the snaps

Manage MicroCloud and its components (LXD, MicroCeph, and MicroOVN) through their snap packages.

For the installation guide, see: How to install MicroCloud. For details about the snaps, including supported and compatible releases, tracks, and release processes, see: Releases and snaps.

View snap information

To view information about a snap, including the available channels and installed version, run:

snap info <microcloud|lxd|microceph|microovn>

To view information about the installed version only, run:

snap list <microcloud|lxd|microceph|microovn>

Sample output:

root@instance:~# snap list microcloud
Name        Version        Rev   Tracking  Publisher   Notesmicrocloud  2.1.0-3e8b183  1144  2/stable  canonical✓  in-cohort,held

The first part of the version string corresponds to the release (in this sample, 2.1.0).

Manage the MicroCloud daemon

Installing the MicroCloud snap creates the MicroCloud daemon as a snap service. Use the following snap commands to manage this daemon.

To view the status of the daemon, run:

snap services microcloud

To stop the daemon, run:

sudo snap stop microcloud

To start the daemon, run:

sudo snap start microcloud

To restart the daemon, run:

sudo snap restart microcloud

For more information about managing snap services, visit Service management in the Snap documentation.