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<section id="create-linux-template">
    <title>Creating a Linux Template</title>
    <para>Linux templates should be prepared using this documentation in order to prepare your linux VMs for template deployment. For ease of documentation, the VM which you are configuring the template on will be referred to as "Template Master". This guide currently covers legacy setups which do not take advantage of UserData and cloud-init and assumes openssh-server is installed during installation.
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    <para>An overview of the procedure is as follow:</para>
    <orderedlist>
        <listitem><para>Upload your Linux ISO.</para> <para>For more information, see <xref linkend="add-iso"/>.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Create a VM Instance with this ISO.</para><para> For more information, see <xref linkend="creating-vms"/>.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Prepare the Linux VM</para></listitem>		
        <listitem><para>Create a template from the VM.</para><para> For more information, see <xref linkend="create-template-from-existing-vm"/>.</para></listitem>
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