Image resources

Download pre-built images for OpenStack

You can run a number of different Linux distributions and operating systems on top of your RDO cloud. This is a collection of various OpenStack-ready images that you can use:

• Fedora cloud images
• RHEL 9 image (requires RHEL subscription)
• RHEL 8 image (requires RHEL subscription)
• RHEL 7 image (requires RHEL subscription)
• CentOS Stream 9 GenericCloud images
• CentOS Stream 8 GenericCloud images
• CentOS 7 GenericCloud images
• Ubuntu cloud images
• Windows Server 2012 test image
• openSUSE cloud images
• Debian cloud images

Additional resources

• The OpenStack Virtual Machine Image Guide provides another list of Glance images

Import images into Glance

You can load an image from the command line with Glance. For example:

$ curl -LO --progress https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/36/Cloud/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-36-1.5.x86_64.qcow2

$ openstack image create --os-image-api-version 2 --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --file /home/centos/Fedora-Cloud-Base-36-1.5.x86_64.qcow2 'Fedora-36-x86_64'

Alternatively, go to the Images tab in your OpenStack dashboard to add images via the GUI.

See the OpenStack documentation for more details about the Glance command-line tools.

Build your own images

• Section Tool support for image creation in the OpenStack Virtual Machine Image Guide provides a list of tools you can use to build your own images
• Section Create images manually in the OpenStack Virtual Machine Image Guide contains instructions on how to manually create images based on various operating systems, including CentOS Stream and Fedora

Import your own images

The resulting image file can be imported into Glance similarly to any other image:

$ openstack image create --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --is-public True 'Fedora-36-x86_64' < fedora-image.qcow2