A tour of the console
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The console is the whole product. Everything Virtainer Lite can do is reachable from the sidebar, and everything it shows is this host’s own state.
Dashboard
Section titled “Dashboard”The landing page: host health, capacity, and what is running right now. Start here after a reboot or when something looks wrong.
Virtual machines
Section titled “Virtual machines”Classic virtual machines booted from a Linux cloud image.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Instances | Every VM on the host, its state, and the actions that apply to it. See Create a VM and Lifecycle and console |
| Images | The cloud images cached on this host. See Images and templates |
| Templates | Reusable cloud-init settings applied when you create a VM |
Machines here can also take snapshots and be given PCI devices.
AppVMs
Section titled “AppVMs”Docker and OCI images booted as their own virtual machines.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Instances | Every AppVM, its health, and its workload state. See Logs, exec, and redeploy |
| Templates | Application images imported and converted for booting. See Run a Docker image |
Before importing an image, Will my image run? is worth two minutes. Runtime options covers overriding what the image declares.
The resources your machines are built from.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Networks | The networks machines attach to. See Networks |
| Storage | The storage pool, its disks, and their health. See Storage pools |
| Volumes | Disks that live independently of any machine. See Data volumes |
| API Keys | Scoped keys for automation. See API keys |
System
Section titled “System”Operating the host itself.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Settings | Web account, port, SSH, VM autostart, host power. See Settings |
| OS Updates | Switch the host image and roll back. See OS updates |
| Logs & Diagnostics | Logs, disk health, reports. See Logs and diagnostics |
| Danger Zone | Factory reset. See Danger Zone |