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C HAPTER 5
Managing Templates
A template is basically a set of packages from some Linux distribution used to populate a VPS.
An OS template consists of system programs, libraries, and scripts needed to boot up and run
the system (VPS), as well as some very basic applications and utilities. Applications like a
compiler and an SQL server are usually not included into an OS template.
In This Chapter
Template Lifecycle ............................................................................................................... 42
Listing Templates.................................................................................................................. 44
Working with VPS................................................................................................................ 45
Template Lifecycle
A template cache is an OS template installed into a VPS and then packed into a gzipped tar
archive. This allows to speed up the creation of a new Virtual Private Server: instead of
installing all the packages comprising a Linux distribution,
vzctl just unpacks the archive.
Template metadata are a set of files containing the information needed to recreate the
template cache. It contains the following information: