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Appliance Cookbook

This chapter has step-by-step recipes for creating several kinds of appliances and is intended to serve as a tutorial and as a source of examples to be emulated when building new appliances.

The following recipes are included:

• Building a blank appliance template (basic OS installation, with no specific functionality) from scratch. This is primarily useful for creating a few non-specialized templates which can later be re-used and configured for a specific purpose. Since a few such ready-made basic templates are provided in the CA AppLogic® system catalog, this recipe is intended mostly for use when porting APK to a new OS type for which there is no ready appliance in the catalog.
• Creating a virtual private server (VPS) appliance - a virtual machine that is not intended to interact with other appliances and be part of a multi-tier application, but rather serve as the equivalent of a private hosted server, with a single Internet-accessible network interface.
• Building a fast-boot mini-appliance, based entirely on a read-only volume. This use case is suitable for creating various filter type virtual devices that do not store persistently any data, like WAN routers, firewalls, load balancers, and so on. This recipe is specific to the Linux OS, which is generally well-suited to operate in an embedded environment with a read-only boot volume.

This section contains the following topics:

Blank Appliance

Creating a VPS Template

Appliance Kit Installation for Ubuntu Linux Distributions

Appliance Kit Installation For RedHat and CentOS Linux Distributions

Appliance Kit Installation for Windows

IIS03W/IIS03S/IIS03E/IIS03DC: Installation Reference

IIS08W/IIS08S/IIS08E/IIS08DC: Installation Reference

SQL08_03: Microsoft SQL Server Database

SQL08X/WG/D/W/S/E_08: Microsoft SQL Server Database Appliances - Installation Reference

Windows Installation Reference