In this video, I want to tell you about templates and clones. Templates and clones are important
in virtual environments as well as cloud. So how does it work? Well, templates can be
used to make creating virtual machines easier. In the template, standard settings are defined.
And as a result, while creating virtual machines from the template, only a little bit of customization
needs to be done. And that makes it easy to install a base virtual machine everywhere.
Vagrant is used as a common solution that uses templates to deploy multiple virtual
machines in a faster, easier, and more efficient way. But Vagrant is not a part of Linux Plus,
so I'm not going to explain how that works. And we don't have to, because all the virtualization
solutions have a template option and a clone option. A clone allows you to copy the current
state of a virtual machine. And creating a clone is always a smart idea if you are
going to create big modifications, because if it turns out not to work all right, you
can easily revert to the original state. Using clones makes testing easy. Test it in a clone,
and if it doesn't work, you easily revert to the original virtual machine. A full clone
is a full copy of the virtual machine, which is used independent of the original VM. And
a linked clone depends on the original VM. If the original VM is deleted, the linked
clone won't work anymore.