= Creating Caches from Templates
Use {brandname} cache templates to add caches with recommended default settings.

.Procedure
. Create a distributed, synchronous cache from a template and name it "mycache".
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[//containers/default]> create cache --template=org.infinispan.DIST_SYNC mycache
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Press the tab key after the `--template=` argument to list available cache templates.
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. Retrieve the cache configuration.
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[//containers/default]> describe caches/mycache
{
  "distributed-cache" : {
    "mode" : "SYNC",
    "remote-timeout" : 17500,
    "state-transfer" : {
      "timeout" : 60000
    },
    "transaction" : {
      "mode" : "NONE"
    },
    "locking" : {
      "concurrency-level" : 1000,
      "acquire-timeout" : 15000,
      "striping" : false
    }
  }
}
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