Import your own custom Image ============================================ Introduction ````````````````````````````````````````` | In E2E cloud stack, we empower our customers by allowing them to get their customized images made available in their myaccount console. Customers can bring in their golden images(customized Linux/Windows distributions with software and configurations to fit the specific needs) from on-premises environment or even from other cloud providers to E2E cloud platform and use them to create virtual machines with their choice of `Plans `_. | The option saves time and effort required to setup and configure your node right from the scratch again to get your required golden stack in place. You can get your bootable disk images from virtual machines (VMs) on your local workstation, from your physical datacenters, or from VMs that run on another cloud platform to `E2E Cloud-Platform `_. Prerequisites ````````````````````````````````````````` VM initialization method ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There are different methods to pass information to a newly created Virtual Machine. This information can be the network configuration of the VM, user credentials, init scripts and free form data. In our cloud platform we use OpenNebula context package for virtual machine initialization, which configures the network, sets the user credentials, sets hostname, add provided SSH keys etc. Download and Installation of Contextualization Packages and Dependencies to your VM **************************************************************************************** CentOS/RHEL 6.x ------------------ :: # wget https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-context-linux/releases/download/v5.8.0/one-context-5.8.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm # yum install -y epel-release # yum install -y one-context-[0-9]*el6*rpm CentOS/Fedora/RHEL 7.x ------------------ :: # wget https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-context-linux/releases/download/v5.8.0/one-context-5.8.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm # yum install -y epel-release # yum install -y one-context-[0-9]*el7*rpm Debian/Ubuntu ------------------ :: # wget https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-context-linux/releases/download/v5.8.0/one-context_5.8.0-1.deb # apt-get purge -y cloud-init # dpkg -i one-context_*deb || apt-get install -fy OpenSUSE 42,15 ------------------ :: # wget https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-context-linux/releases/download/v5.8.0/one-context-5.8.0-1.suse.noarch.rpm # zypper --no-gpg-check install -y one-context-[0-9]*suse*rpm Alpine Linux ------------------ :: # wget https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-context-linux/releases/download/v5.8.0/one-context-5.8.0-r1.apk # apk add --allow-untrusted one-context-[0-9]*apk FreeBSD 11,12 ------------------ :: # wget https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-context-linux/releases/download/v5.8.0/one-context-5.8.0_1.txz # pkg install -y curl bash sudo base64 ruby open-vm-tools-nox11 # pkg install -y one-context-[0-9]*.txz Windows ------- As of now Windows based images are not supported due to the license restrictions. .. Note :: If you have cloud-init present in your virtual machine for initialization, please make sure that the respective cloud-init service is disabled on boot before taking the image. The cloud-init will conflict with the OpenNebula context package which may result in failure of virtual machine initialization process. Supported image formats ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ E2E cloud-platform supports images in qcow2, qed, raw, vdi, vhd, and vmdk formats for import. Disk requirements ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The image should contain single disk partition. The primary partition on the disk can be in any format that you like as long as it boots properly from the MBR bootloader. The disk should not be larger than 2048 GB (2 TB). Operating System requirements ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Disk images with any bootable operating system can be imported to E2E cloud-platform, but the context package and intialization method are easier to configure for the Operating systems offered on virtual node environment than others. | The following operating systems are tested for this guide: * CentOS/RHEL >= 6 * Debian >= 8 * Ubuntu >= 14.04 .. Note :: Other operating systems can also be imported but they might require additional configuration steps that are not covered in this guide. Importing an image to E2E Cloud-Platform ````````````````````````````````````````` | Once you have an image ready meeting the aforementioned prerequisites, you can provide us with a downloadable link from where we can download the image file. We will get the image file imported to our cloud-platform from the backend and make it available in your myaccount `Saved Images `_ section from where you can use it to create virtual machines with your choice of plan. | You can contact our cloud-platform support team at cloud-platform@e2enetworks.com for any query and concern with the import process. Pricing ```````````````` | There is no charges for importing your custom images on E2E Cloud-platform. You will be charged for the storage space consumed by the image at **₹ 4.00/GB** per month. | You can create the virtual machine using your imported custom image and delete the image to avoid incurring image storage cost.