Managing FlexusL Application Images

Scenarios

FlexusL provides various featured application images. An application image contains not only the underlying OS (Ubuntu 22.04), but also application software, initialization data, and runtime environment required by the application. You can use application images to quickly deploy applications out-of-the-box, minimizing the need for separate upload and installation.

You can log in to the visual dashboard of the application image for quick configuration. This section describes the precautions for using application images and how to log in to the image application dashboard.

Precautions

If a FlexusL instance is created using an application image, ensure that the application has been installed from the image and running properly on the instance before you reset the instance password, or restart, start, or stop the instance. Otherwise, you may fail to log in to the image application dashboard.

Logging In to the Image Application Dashboard

If it is your first login to the dashboard, you need to initialize the application preinstalled in the image. If it is not the first login, you can access the dashboard directly.

During the initialization, you need to set the information about the application. Different applications require different initialization operation. Perform the corresponding operation based on your application. Table 1 describes how to initialize the application pre-installed in the image.

**Table 1** Initializing the application pre-installed in the image
Application Image	Initialization
BT panel	Initializing BT Panel
WordPress	Initializing WordPress
Odoo	Initializing Odoo
Matomo	Initializing Matomo
Portainer	Initializing Portainer
GitLab	Initializing GitLab
Prestashop	Initializing PrestaShop
Superset	Initializing Superset
Nextcloud	Initializing Nextcloud
SRS	Initialization not involved.

Log in to the FlexusL console and click a resource card to go to the instance details page.
On the Overview page, in the Image area, click Access to access the image application dashboard.

For the Prestashop application image, log in to the dashboard using the encrypted address generated when you log in to the dashboard for the first time.