.. _images: =================== Cloud / User Images =================== Have same functionality and features like the one from the :doc:`Client Images `. .. note:: **Creating and updating an image is only possible from the staff area.** .. _create-new-image: Create new image ================ To create a new image click the plus (+) button from the bottom-right - **"Create Image"**. .. image:: /_static/images/staff/create-image.png On the next page fill in these fields: * **Region**: *Select the region where this image should be created* * **Image name**: *Give the image a name* * **Minimum disk size**: *The amount of disk space.* * **Minimum required RAM (MB)**: *The amount of RAM.* * **Disk format**: * **raw** *This is an unstructured disk image format* * **vhd** *This is the VHD disk format, a common disk format used by virtual machine monitors from VMware, Xen, Microsoft, VirtualBox, and others* * **vhdx** *This is the VHDX disk format, an enhanced version of the vhd format which supports larger disk sizes among other features.* * **vmdk** *Another common disk format supported by many common virtual machine monitors* * **vdi** *A disk format supported by VirtualBox virtual machine monitor and the QEMU emulator* * **iso** *An archive format for the data contents of an optical disc (e.g. CDROM).* * **qcow2** *A disk format supported by the QEMU emulator that can expand dynamically and supports Copy on Write* * **aki** *This indicates what is stored in Glance is an Amazon kernel image* * **ari** *This indicates what is stored in Glance is an Amazon ramdisk image* * **ami** *This indicates what is stored in Glance is an Amazon machine image* * **Visibility**: *Public, shared, community or private.* * **Is protected**: *Image delete protection.* * **Architecture**: *Set operating system on 32 bit or 64 bit.* * **OS distro**: *Set operating system.* * **OS version**: *Set operating system version.* * **Image source**: *Select the source for the actual image data by uploading a file or setting an url* .. image:: /_static/images/staff/create-image-screen.png Note that if you try to upload a large image the upload may fail, if so you may want edit nginx configuration and adjust ``client_max_body_size`` setting. By default Fleio allows image sizes up to 5000MiB. .. _updating-image: Updating an image ================= To update an image, click the following button from the actions area of an image: .. image:: /_static/images/staff/image-update-icon.png You will be redirected to a new page with two tabs: * **Edit Image**: edit the same fields as in the create image page * **Properties**: set or remove custom properties for the image Edit Image tab -------------- .. image:: /_static/images/staff/image-update-screen.png Properties tab -------------- .. image:: /_static/images/staff/image-properties.png Here you can add custom properties for the image that will be saved in the properties key from the image object. You can add new fields by clicking the ``+`` button and remove them by clicking the ``x`` button.