Modify a VM template

To add variables to a VM template, enter the Key and Value, then click Add.

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To edit an existing value, click the pencil icon, enter the new Value, then click ok. To save your changes to the template, click Save.

The variables will be added automatically to new VMs. Users can edit the variables when configuring the VM.

After the VM deploys, users can then access variables in the guest.
For example, AWS stores the variables in the ~/vm-variables.rc file. Cloud-init may use variables. Remember to check your provider documentation about metadata security.

In the Catalogue view, shared templates are marked with the outstretched hand symbol. 

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By default, templates are local to the tenant that creates them (the "owner" enterprise). To share templates, assign scopes to them. 

To share a template with a scope:

1. Go to Users → Scopes

2. Create a scope

   1. For enterprises to use the template, select them in the scope

3. Log in or switch to the enterprise that owns the template

4. Go to Catalogue → Templates

5. Edit a template

6. Go to Scopes

7. Select the scope

For more information, see Manage scopes and Manage resource scopes

To share a template with the enterprises in one or more scopes, select template scopes.

To remove enterprise access to a template, remove the scope containing the enterprise. 

• You cannot remove a scope from the template if an enterprise in the scope is using the template, for example, if it has deployed VMs or instances of VMs. 

To make a template private to the owner enterprise, unselect all scopes.

In private cloud, the instances of shared templates belong to the enterprise that created them. When a template has instances, it is "in use" by the enterprises with instances. This may mean that you cannot delete a template without deleting or promoting the instances first.

When you make a shared template unavailable, other enterprises cannot deploy it, but it may not be marked as "unavailable" in the Catalogue of other enterprises until you refresh your Catalogue.

Add a bootstrap script to a VM template and the platform will add it to all VMs created from the template to use with the Cloud-init or similar options for Guest setup. 

Before you begin:

1. Prepare a template that is compatible with cloud-init version 0.7.9 or above, or cloudbase-init, or a similar system

2. In private cloud, the platform will create an ISO disk for Configuration drive

To add a VM bootstrap configuration or script:

1. Go to Catalogue →  Edit VM template

2. Go to Bootstrap

3. Paste your configuration or script in the Bootstrap script text box

4. Continue to configure the VM template or click Save to finish

Note: when you save VM disks to an instance template, Abiquo copies the VM bootstrap script to the instance template.

When you edit a VM template, you can add cost codes for extra charges for cloud billing.

1. Create cost codes for extra charges. See “Create a new extra charge” in Pricing view

   1. For the Type select VM template or All

2. Set values for cost codes for extra charges. See Create a new pricing model

3. Go to the Catalogue

4. Edit a VM template

5. Go to cost codes for Extra charges

6. Add cost codes for extra charges as required.

When you edit a VM template, you can add tags to group resources and manage them in Control view.

To manage tags for a template:

1. Go to Apps library → select a datacenter or public cloud region

2. Go to Templates

3. Edit a template

4. Go to Tags

5. Add tags 

    

   For more details see Edit resource tags