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Create and manage Linux Containers

Create and manage Linux Containers - Proxmox VE Tutorial

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Create and manage Linux Containers

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- [Instructor] While Proxmox VE is widely used to host virtual machines, it also supports running Linux containers. Containers are isolated spaces that operate a little bit like virtual machines, but instead of having a full operating system within them, they use the host's kernel instead. In this way, containers are kind of like lightweight virtual machines, so they're often used when we need to host a particular application and we don't want to manage a full virtual machine for it. Many popular services are distributed as containers, things like smart home utilities, database servers, wiki servers, self-hosted file sync, and other services, media management software, and so on. So if you're using Proxmox VE for a home lab, you might run some of these services as containers. Proxmox VE creates containers from templates. And there are quite a few container templates that PVE has available. We can also add others via URL or upload. For now, though, let's work with what's provided. I…

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