TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library: Difference between revisions

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== Features ==

The project currently maintains around 100 [[virtual appliance|virtual appliances]]s, all freely licensed and each a ready-to-use solution optimized for ease of use, with daily automatic security updates and full backup capabilities built in. Each appliance is designed to "just work" with little configuration required.<ref name="TurnKeySoftwareAppliances">{{cite web | title = TurnKey GNU/Linux: 100+ Free Ready-to-Use System Images for Virtual Machines, the Cloud, and Bare Metal | work = TurnKey Linux | url = http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ | accessdate = July 20, 2014 }}</ref>

They are packaged in several formats, optimized for several different virtualization platforms, in addition to two separate builds for installing onto physical media (to non-virtualized hard disk or USB from a hybrid ISO) or onto the [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud | Amazon EC2 cloud]]. <ref name="BuildTypes"> {{Cite web |title = Supported virtualization platforms and build types | work = TurnKey GNU/Linux docs | accessdate = 2014-07-20 | url = http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/builds}}</ref>

* [[Virtual appliance]]: a ready-to-run [[Virtual Machine]] Appliance build types include:"

** [[Open Virtualization Format|OVA]] - As of v14.0 this is the default VM format. It provides "double-click" launch for [[VirtualBox]] and most [[VMware]] products (e.g. [[VMware_WorkstationVMware Workstation|Workstation]], [[VMware_PlayerVMware Player|Player]], [[VMware_FusionVMware Fusion|Fusion]] and [[VMware_ESXVMware ESX|vSphere/ESX]]). Also includes open-vmtools (for VMware).

** [[VMDK]] - "VM" in Turnkey Linux download mirrors - As above, but packaged as a zip containing a VMDK vHDD as well as a (legacy) VMX (legacy VMware vm config file). Runs on [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]]/[[QEMU]]<ref name="KVM"> {{cite web |title = Using default VM build with KVM | work = TurnKey GNU/Linux docs | accessdate = 2014-07-20 | url = http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/kvm}}</ref>

** [[OpenStack]]

** [[LXC|Container]] - This somewhat generic container format is specifically packaged for [[Proxmox_Virtual_EnvironmentProxmox Virtual Environment|Proxmox]] (as tar.gz) and [[OpenNode]] (as OVA). These builds can be downloaded direct within Proxmox's WebUI<ref>{{cite web |url=http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/8462-Appliance-downloads-are-back-%28Proxmox-VE-2-0rc1%29-including-TurnKey-Linux-library |title=Appliance downloads are back (Proxmox VE 2.0rc1) including TurnKey Linux library|date=23 February 2012 |work=Martin Maurer - Proxmox VE project lead via ProxmoxVE announcement thread|accessdate=15 April 2012}}</ref> and OpenNode's interface<ref>{{cite web |url=http://opennodecloud.com/article/introducing-turnkey-linux-appliance-library/ |title=Introducing TurnKey Linux Appliance Library|date=18 October 2013 |work=OpenNode Cld Platform |accessdate=8 February 2014}}</ref> respectively. The tar.gz archive is also known to work with both vanilla [[OpenVZ]] and [[LXC]] with minimal tweaking.

** [[Xen]]

** [[Docker (software)|Docker]]

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November 2013 saw the release of v13.0, based on [[Debian]] 7.2 (aka Wheezy).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/turnkey-13-and-tklbam-1.4 |title=TurnKey 13 out, TKLBAM 1.4 now backup/restores any Linux system|date=21 November 2013 |work=Liraz Siri |accessdate=8 July 2014}}</ref>

September 2015 saw the long overdue release of v14.0, based on [[Debian]] 8.2 (aka Jessie),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/turnkey-14-0-release |title=v14.0 stable release - Massive Community Effort!|date=17 September 2015 |work=Jeremy Davis |accessdate=24 November 2014}}</ref>, followed by an April 2016 maintenance release, v. 14.1, based on Debian 8.4.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/14.1-bugfixes-maintenance-and-more |title=v14.1 Release - Bugfixes, Maintenance and More|date=15 April 2016 |work=Jeremy Davis |accessdate=25 April 2016}}</ref>

== Design ==

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[[Category:Software appliances]]

[[Category:Ubuntu (operating system) derivatives]]

[[Category:Debian-based_distributionsbased distributions]]

[[Category:Linux package management-related software]]

[[Category:Free software]]