Snap how-to guides

If you have a specific goal, but are already familiar with snaps, our How-to guides have more in-depth detail than our tutorials and can be applied to a broader set of applications. They’ll help you achieve an end result but may require you to understand and adapt the steps to fit your specific requirements.

How-to-guides
Manage updates Control when snaps update, or hold an update indefinitely
Connect interfaces Control exactly what a snap can access, and what it can’t
Configure snaps Learn how to set options for your servers and daemons
Managing snaps
Create data snapshots Make a copy of a snap’s user, system and configuration data
Use quota resources Set processor and memory resource limits on your snaps
Control services Start, stop and restart snapped background services