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Anyway to download the image for use in a private cloud?

• areed 10y ago
  No, it's specifically built for Google Cloud and not tested anywhere else, so they don't distribute it.
• kkirsche 10y ago
  I was wondering the same exact thing
• dekhn 10y ago
  I imagine it would be trivial: start an image, then capture the filesystem image, then patch up anything where the image depended on Google Cloud.
  • skj 10y ago
    Just to be clear, the "would be trivial" part was a joke, right?
    • threeseed 10y ago
      Since you can SSH into the running image you can just use rsync to clone the entire disk. Is there something you know that is being missed here ?
      • Natanael_L 10y ago
        I'm thinking they're expecting it to be heavily reliant on Google infrastructure through a variety of API calls.
    • dekhn 10y ago
      Every time I've cloned a Linux image from one infrastructure provider to another, I've always had to identify 5-10 locations where it was customized for the infrastructure. Typically finding those is a matter of reading log files and knowing how linux works. To me, that's "trivial" because it's something I've been doing for decades. It may not be so for other people.
• zbjornson 10y ago
  You can download an image easily [0], but I don't know how easy it would be to run it anywhere else. [0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/export-image https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/export-image
• TheIronYuppie 10y ago
  Disclosure: I work at Google. Both downloading the image, and the source code, will be available soon(-ish)! https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/faq https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/fa... As others have said, it's still pretty likely you'll need to do some configuration changes, as this is fairly customized to run on Google Cloud (e.g. there's no package manager, file system is read-only by default, etc).