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Summary
Custom images are used to create new virtual server instances with your own settings and configurations. You can create a custom image on IBM Cloud in two ways:
- You can create a custom image on premises and import it to your IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud infrastructure from IBM Cloud Object Storage.
- You can create a custom image of a boot volume that is attached to a virtual server instance at import time. For more information, see about creating an image.
Images are private to the account that they're imported to. New virtual server instance deployments are limited to the region where the image is imported. For more information about importing custom images, see importing custom images. For more information about managing custom images, see Managing custom images.
You have many considerations when you create a custom image, such as operating systems, image requirements, and whether you want to share your custom image to a private catalog. For more information about planning for custom images, see planning for custom images.
Features
Operating systems supported
In order to create a custom image, the operating system must be supported as an IBM stock image. For more information on supported operating systems, see available stock image versions. Limited distributions of these operating systems are available.
Community-supported images are not directly supported by IBM Cloud. Security updates and compatibility with new IBM features is the project community's responsibility.
OS Currency
IBM Cloud updates supported operating systems regularly. So, new virtual server instances are up to date. Depending on the operating system, upgrades and fixes for existing virtual server instances must be applied manually.
Encrypt custom images
If needed, you can encrypt your custom images in qcow2 format for enhanced security.
Summary
- 1Image
- Hourly storage cost per 1 GB of data used by the boot volume. Total Image size is not known until after creation.