11.3. Container Images
Container images, sometimes also referred to as “templates” or “appliances”, are tar archives which contain everything to run a container.
Proxmox VE itself provides a variety of basic templates for the most common Linux distributions. They can be downloaded using the GUI or the pveam (short for Proxmox VE Appliance Manager) command-line utility. Additionally, TurnKey Linux container templates are also available to download.
The list of available templates is updated daily through the pve-daily-update timer. You can also trigger an update manually by executing:
# pveam update
To view the list of available images run:
# pveam available