Create
Create a Custom Image
To create a new custom image, send a POST request to /v2/images. The body must contain a url attribute pointing to a Linux virtual machine image to be imported into DigitalOcean. The image must be in the raw, qcow2, vhdx, vdi, or vmdk format. It may be compressed using gzip or bzip2 and must be smaller than 100 GB after being decompressed.
Parameters
An optional free-form text field to describe an image.
The name of a custom image's distribution. Currently, the valid values are Arch Linux
, CentOS
, CoreOS
, Debian
, Fedora
, Fedora Atomic
, FreeBSD
, Gentoo
, openSUSE
, RancherOS
, Rocky Linux
, Ubuntu
, and Unknown
. Any other value will be accepted but ignored, and Unknown
will be used in its place.
The display name that has been given to an image. This is what is shown in the control panel and is generally a descriptive title for the image in question.
The slug identifier for the region where the resource will initially be available.
A URL from which the custom Linux virtual machine image may be retrieved. The image it points to must be in the raw, qcow2, vhdx, vdi, or vmdk format. It may be compressed using gzip or bzip2 and must be smaller than 100 GB after being decompressed.
Returns
from do_gradientai import GradientAI
client = GradientAI()
image = client.gpu_droplets.images.create()
print(image.image)
{
"image": {
"created_at": "2020-05-04T22:23:02Z",
"description": " ",
"distribution": "Ubuntu",
"error_message": " ",
"min_disk_size": 20,
"name": "Nifty New Snapshot",
"public": true,
"regions": [
"nyc1",
"nyc2"
],
"size_gigabytes": 2.34,
"slug": "nifty1",
"status": "NEW",
"tags": [
"base-image",
"prod"
],
"type": "snapshot"
}
}