Managing Images
Note
The openstack CLI will need to be setup to interact with the FlexiHPC system. Please read Setting up your CLI environment to interact with FlexiHPC to get started.
List images
You are able to list the images that you have uploaded to the FlexiHPC platform using the command openstack image list --<private/shared>
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| ID | Name | Status |
+--------------------------------------+------------------------+--------+
| 64dead14-9c5a-41c3-b4d6-a122a2ca8f28 | linux-test-snapshot | active |
| d479470d-ab6d-40d6-afc9-04f5f253404d | linux-test-to-boot-2 | active |
| 40ed5c78-c970-4182-a9c8-27e18a6a4251 | linux-test-to-boot-cli | active |
| 5a8e5595-d893-4d1c-8600-d7982f3915bb | ood-keycloak-1 | active |
| 04e1a31a-adee-4af2-935e-0e6e7c4b3193 | test-break | active |
+--------------------------------------+------------------------+--------+
+--------------------------------------+------------------------------+--------+
| ID | Name | Status |
+--------------------------------------+------------------------------+--------+
| 2282be79-1b79-434b-9974-162b533dab00 | Ubuntu-22.10-Wiki-Test | active |
| 1a0480d1-55c8-4fd7-8c7a-8c26e52d8cbd | ubuntu-jammy-server-cloudimg | active |
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Adding --long to either command will present more information regarding the image
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| ID | Name | Disk Format | Container Format | Size | Checksum | Status | Visibility | Protected | Project | Tags |
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| 2282be79-1b79-434b-9974-162b533dab00 | Ubuntu-22.10-Wiki-Test | raw | bare | 740491264 | 91c3094a3ff142ce651034d41aa860c3 | active | shared | False | 4f07cc254d6c4471805d49bae1f739b9 | |
| 1a0480d1-55c8-4fd7-8c7a-8c26e52d8cbd | ubuntu-jammy-server-cloudimg | qcow2 | bare | 688193536 | e05c516fa30cf6c0fd47930449b85ac7 | active | shared | False | 4f07cc254d6c4471805d49bae1f739b9 | |
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Updating an image
If you need to modify the image details or metadata, the general practice is to create a new image with the desired changes rather than directly editing the existing one. After creating the new image, you can delete the old image if it's no longer needed.
If you need to update an Image this can be done via the Dashboard
Deleting an image
Using the same command openstack image list --<private/shared> get the image id as you will need to supply that to the following command
Info
Deleting an image that has been used to create a compute instance will fail until that instance has been deleted