Installation guide

This chapter describes how to create and manage EZ OS and application templates in Parallels

Virtuozzo Containers.

In This Chapter

Creating an EZ Template ........................................................................................ 20

Setting Up Repositories and Proxy Servers for EZ Templates .................................. 27

Preparing OS EZ Templates for Creating Containers ............................................... 43

Installing Application EZ Templates ......................................................................... 44

Downloading and Installing EZ Templates with vzup2date ....................................... 44

Uploading and Installing EZ Templates in Parallels Management Console ................ 48

Listing EZ Templates .............................................................................................. 51

Adding Application EZ Templates to Containers ...................................................... 53

Keeping EZ Templates Up To Date ......................................................................... 55

Creating Historical Mirrors for Backed Up Containers .............................................. 68

Copying EZ Templates to Another Hardware Node ................................................. 70

Removing Application EZ Templates From Containers ............................................. 72

Removing EZ Templates From the Hardware Node ................................................. 73

Converting Containers Based on Standard Templates ............................................. 75

Creating an EZ Template

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is shipped with a certain number of OS (e.g., centos-5-x86_64)

and application (e.g., mysql-centos-5-x86_64) EZ templates. This is usually sufficient to

deploy the main Linux distributions and their applications in Containers. You can, however, create

your own OS and application EZ templates and use them to base Containers on or run different

applications in Containers.

You can use one of the following ways to create EZ templates:

• Make a template on the basis of an existing template (p. 21). In this case, you configure the

parameters of one of the templates installed on your Node to meet your needs.

• Make a template from scratch (p. 21). In this case, you first create a new template configuration

and then create the template on its basis.

The following subsections describe both ways of creating templates in detail.

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Managing EZ Templates