Creating Customized Containers

If you wish to run one or several customized applications inside your Containers and the number of such Containers is relatively large, you may think of a way to automate the process of creating Containers that already have a number of applications installed and tuned to meet your demands. So, you do not need to manually install and customize your applications every time you create a new Container.

Parallels Server Bare Metal allows you to create customized Containers having a certain set of customized applications installed inside them right after their creation in one of the following ways:

• By making a customized base OS EZ template and using it as the basis for your Containers.
• By making a non-base OS EZ template and using it as the basis for your Containers.
• By making a customized application EZ template, adding it to a new configuration sample file, and using this sample file as the basis for your Containers.

All these operations are described in the following subsections in detail.