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Preparing Plesk for Linux for Cloning

 
deploying plesk servers by cloningdeployment guideplesk installation and upgrade on multiple serversautomatic updatescloning
  1. Install Plesk

    Create a clean installation of Plesk. For instructions, see
    Installing Plesk for Linux Using Installer Console.

  2. Configure Plesk

    Configure Plesk exactly the way you wish the cloned instances to
    appear. It may include the following:

    • User interface layout through custom views - configured at
      post-install configuration, see Plesk Single Server Post-install
      Configuration
      .
    • Interface preferences and localization, see Appearance and
      Branding
      .
    • Control panel appearance and interface elements, see Customizing
      Plesk Appearance and GUI
      Elements
      .
    • Hosting plans and subscriptions, see Hosting Plans and
      Subscriptions
      .
    • DNS template, see DNS
      Template
      .
  3. Prepare for Cloning

    Use the cloning --update -prepare-public-image true command to
    prepare a Plesk instance for cloning. You may also choose to
    configure certain additional options:

    • Preserve the initial configuration

      By default, the cloning command will reset the configuration
      parameters of the instance: each cloned instance will have to be
      configured anew. Use -reset-init-conf false to preserve the
      initial configuration during cloning.

    • Reset the license

      Optionally, you may choose to remove the product license during
      cloning, so it is not copied throughout the cloned instances. Use
      -reset-license true to accomplish that.

    • Disable updates after cloning

      After the cloned instance is started, the availability of updates
      for the current version is checked explicitly and the updates are
      installed if necessary. Installation of updates is working under
      the same rules as in daily maintenance task. Updates installation
      can be disabled if option -skip-update true is passed while
      cloning.

    When IP pool reconfiguration is enabled, each time the server with
    Plesk is restarted, it will rediscover the IP addresses and
    reconfigure its IP pool accordingly. Use this when the virtual
    servers are allocated IP addresses dynamically. You may skip this
    step if the virtual servers you want to copy Plesk onto use static IP
    addresses. Also, omitting this option will make Plesk start faster
    because Plesk will not have to reconfigure its IP pool on each
    startup.

    # /usr/local/psa/bin/ipmanage --auto-remap-ip-addresses true
    

    For detailed information on the cloning utility, see cloning:
    Server Cloning
    Settings
    .

  4. Create a Snapshot

    Stop (shut down) the virtual machine. Then, create a virtual machine
    image (snapshot) by means of virtual machines management software you
    use. Refer to the software vendors’ documentation for respective
    instructions.

Note: When preparing a Plesk instance for cloning, avoid restarting the
psa service and shutting down the virtual machine on which the
instance is installed.

Example: Preparing a Plesk for Linux instance for cloning

The following command prepares Plesk for cloning by resetting sensitive
data and product license while preserving the results of the
post-install configuration, and disabling automatic updates.

# /usr/local/psa/bin/cloning --update -prepare-public-image true -reset-init-conf false -reset-license true -skip-update true
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