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Does DigitalOcean still lack support for arbitrary images? I seem to recall that in the past to get an OS rather than their short list I had to pick a supported

Does DigitalOcean still lack support for arbitrary images? I seem to recall that in the past to get an OS rather than their short list I had to pick a supported one then wipe the disk from inside the VM which was a very delicate dance.

hericium 5y ago
You can create your own image but VMs made out of those are limited, e.g. have no IPv6 support.
- anyfoo 5y ago
  Hmm, I bootstrapped a standard OpenBSD installation from a FreeBSD installation. I haven't gotten to set up IPv6 yet but planned to. What would be hindering that, some weird encapsulation protocol or what?
eatonphil 5y ago
On Linode I could script this process by building my own images in advance. I assume that you could port this process to the DO API. https://github.com/eatonphil/linode_deploy_experimental https://github.com/eatonphil/linode_deploy_experimental
- eatonphil 5y ago
  Blog post describing the process here: https://notes.eatonphil.com/deploying-freebsd-on-linode-unattended-in-minutes.html https://notes.eatonphil.com/deploying-freebsd-on-linode-unat...