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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:

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