Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 8 - Creating Container Templates

Welcome back to LearnLinuxTV's full course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In class #8, we look at the process of converting a container into a template, that can then be used as a basis for launching additional containers.

# Other episodes:
Class 01 - Getting Started: https://linux.video/pve1
Class 02 - Installation Process: https://linux.video/pve2
Class 03 - Web Console Overview: https://linux.video/pve3
Class 04 - Containers vs Virtual Machines: https://linux.video/pve4
Class 05 - Launching a Virtual Machine: https://linux.video/pve5
Class 06 - Setting up Virtual Machine Templates: https://linux.video/pve6
Class 07 - Creating Containers: https://linux.video/pve7
Class 08 - Setting up Container Templates: This video
Class 09 - User Management: https://linux.video/pve9
Class 10 - Backups and Snapshots: Coming soon!
Class 11 - Integrated Firewall: Coming soon
Class 12 - Command-line Interface: https://linux.video/pve12
Class 13 - Networking: https://linux.video/pve13
Class 14 - Shared storage: https://linux.video/pve14
Class 15 - Clustering: https://linux.video/pve15
Class 16 - High availability: https://linux.video/pve16
Bonus video 1 - Launching a Windows VM: https://linux.video/pve-win
Bonus video 2 - Getting started with Proxmox Backup Server: https://linux.video/pbs
Bonus video 3 - Proxmox VE - How to build an Ubuntu 22.04 Template (Updated Method): https://linux.video/pve-2204
Bonus video 4 - Build a Kubernetes Cluster on Proxmox: https://linux.video/proxmox-k8s

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# Time codes:
00:00 - Intro
02:16 - General info on converting a container to a template
03:00 - Installing updates inside the container
03:44 - Running a few commands to clean the container before converting
05:42 - Purging /etc/machine-id
06:32 - Converting the container to a template
07:11 - Cloning the template into a VM
09:07 - Resetting the OpenSSH host keys within the container

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