Chapter 5. Managing Containers

You can create, edit, and delete a container from the Fabric perspective of the management console. The type of container you create depends on the purpose and location of the container.

You can create a child container, a cloud container, or an ssh container. If you create a cloud container, make sure you have the credentials to your cloud account. If you create an ssh container, make sure you have the remote host properties.

You can access the container from multiple areas of the Fabric perspective. For example, you can use the Containers page in the Runtime area or the Wiki page.

If the Fabric perspective is not available, make sure that your fabric is available or create a new fabric. If you do not create or join a fabric, you must use the Karaf console to create the container and use the Container perspective to view and manage container properties.

Depending on the location from which you create the container, the management console auto-fills one or more container properties. For example, if you create a container for an existing profile from the Wiki page, the profile name appears in the Selected Profiles list.

To create a container:

You can access the Container Details page from multiple areas in the Fabric perspective of the management console.

To edit a container, click the container name and edit the container properties in the Container Details page. If you added or removed profiles, bundles, or other components, the management console shows the progress of the changes and the state of the container.

You can delete containers from various areas of the management console, such as the Containers page or the Manage page of the Runtime area.

To delete the containers, select one or more containers from the list and click the - icon or the Delete button.