Vmware, Inc.

Steven Taylor

Rahul Agarwal

Etienne Robert Le Sueur

Sunny Tulsi Sreedhar Murthy

Gal Yardeni

Sindhu Shashidhara

Sandhya Pai

Disclosed are various embodiments for creating and managing virtual appliances. A command to create a virtual machine image for a hosted instance of an application image is received. The virtual machine image is created in response to receiving the command. The virtual machine image can include an operating system; a container orchestration service configured to host the instance of the application image; and a configuration service. The configuration service can be configured to at least install a management agent in response to a first boot of the virtual machine and configure the management agent to download and install the application image.

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Steven Taylor