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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2022
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven Taylor, San Carlos, CA (US);
Rahul Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Etienne Robert Le Sueur, New York, NY (US);
Sindhu Shashidhara, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sunny Tulsi Sreedhar Murthy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gal Yardeni, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sandhya Pai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
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.