# Templates

Our platform has several templates available for you to kickstart your server configuration. These can only be used when your server's configuration is still empty, as this would override any existing settings.

The guide assumes you've gone through our Getting Started guide. We'll be installing the Magento template as an example.

First, we check if the config is empty. This is indicated by a banner above the GUI:

In the left-hand menu, select the Templates option. This will bring you to the page below, showing the available templates. Click install on the desired template to bring up the template setup window.

In this config window, you'll be asked to choose which of your servers you'd like to install the template to from a drop-down menu. Then, you'll be asked to add a server name, this is where you add the URL you'd like your application to be reachable at.

Once all configuration options have been filled in, clicking Install will send this config to the server. At this point, you can return to your server's page and see that an application was added:

Don't forget to click Save & publish to actually deploy the config to your server!

You can create your own templates to quickly set up environments. This is especially useful when you regularly deploy multiple servers with similar configurations, such as a consistent MySQL version or a common set of PHP packages.

Using the templates, will make your deployments easier and faster.

To do this, in the upper-right corner of the Templates tab, click Create. This will bring up a new screen where you can choose the name for the template.

After choosing a logical name for your template, create your template.

You will now be brought to our YAML editor. Here you can paste a generalized config of a server, of which you want to make a template.

Here is an example:

---
webserver: nginx

postgresql_version: 16

os_extra_packages:
- libxml2-dev
- libxslt1-dev
- libldap2-dev
- libsasl2-dev

system_users:
- username: prod
  vhosts:
  - server_name: example.com www.example.com
    app_name: odoo
    app_type: odoo
    python_version: 3.10.17
    docker_enabled: true
    cert_type: selfsigned