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The CloudStack UI allows users of cloud infrastructure to view and use their cloud resources, including instances, templates and ISOs, data volumes and snapshots, guest networks and IP addresses.
A few major resource configurations are:
A user creating a new Instance can make various choices about its characteristics and capabilities. CloudStack provides several ways to present users with choices when creating a new instance such as compute, disk, and network offerings. For more information about the offerings and its configuration, see Service Offerings.
CloudStack comes with a default template for the CentOS operating system. There are many ways to add more templates, administrators, and end users can add multiple templates.
The default template is downloaded by the secondary storage VM after the primary and secondary storage are configured. Users can use this template for production deployment, or they can also use custom template my importing a new template/IOS.
For more information about the template and about creating or importing a new template, see Working with Templates.
CloudStack provides several guest management operations for end users and administrators. Instances may be stopped, started, rebooted, and destroyed. The administrator has complete control over the lifecycle of all guest instances in the cloud. Instances are created from a template.
For more information, see Working with Instances.