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DigitalOcean's Custom Images feature allows you to bring your custom Linux and Unix-like virtual disk images from an on-premise environment or another cloud platform to DigitalOcean and use them to start DigitalOcean...
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Hanif Jetha
Custom Images
Solutions
DigitalOcean
Ubuntu 18.04
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Tutorial
DigitalOcean's Custom Images feature allows you to bring your virtual disk images from an on-premise environment or another cloud platform to DigitalOcean and use them to start DigitalOcean Droplets. As described in...
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Hanif Jetha
Solutions
DigitalOcean
Custom Images
Ubuntu 18.04
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Question
I am using the API to spin up a droplet that uses a custom image. I have enabled private ip at the time of creation but no network is created in the droplet. I can see in the DigitalOcean control panel that private ne...
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The device itself is properly created ( ens4 ) so the missing piece is likely the integration of the metadata with the interface configuration. This is generally done with cloud-init, which should be aware of using th...
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zboyet
Custom Images
Networking
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I was wondering if I set up a droplet for debian OS and then added couple repository to the apt source list. downloaded Kali OS to do offensive tests. Will it be tolerated by digital ocean ? can I do pentesting via a ...
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Hello,
Generally this type of testing is ok as long as it's not detrimental to service in terms of negatively affecting others on the platform / your hypervisor. Our Security team at that point will take action on tha...
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sim4n6
Custom Images
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I apologize if the answer is obvious, but I couldn't find any information about this. Are the provided operating systems images (e.g. Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64, Fedora 32 x64, etc.) server versions or desktop versions of...
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Hi there @Leviathan,
The images are based on the server versions. You can also bring your own images in case that you have some specific requirements that the default images do not meet, for more information on how to...
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Leviathan
Custom Images
Initial Server Setup
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When I upload a custom image in .raw format from my Windows PC to be used as an icon for my project I get an error,
We don't support the format of your image. Please try again with a supported image format (raw, qco...
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Hi there @thr333one,
It sounds like you've got two rather different types of images confused here.
The first, which I don't think you want based on "as an icon for my project", is a virtual machine image. These are wh...
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thr333one
Custom Images
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I have just switched from DigitalOcean to Cloudways due too their extremly fast recipe with Varnish + Apache + Nginx (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-nginx-with-apache/) - and it increased my server by 300% d...
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We love big ideas! :)
Thanks for sharing this feedback.
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mattiasf
Nginx
Apache
Caching
WordPress
Custom Images
Automated Setups
Initial Server Setup
One-Click Install Apps
Server Optimization
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Purchased & received a .ZIP file containing image.MF, image.OVF & image.VMDK files from SolarWinds; it's a threat monitor collector (for the Cloud). These files are sized 241 bytes, 8K and 992MB uncompressed respectiv...
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The 100 GB limit for custom images applies to the virtual disk inside the image as well as the file size. For example, this vmdk file is only 5.7G:
$ ls -lah debian-9.7.vmdk
-rwx------ 1 asb lxd 5.7G Jan 26 19:32 deb...
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doktor1360
Custom Images
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Hello,
Having preconfigured system image, containing some sensitive data, I would like to upload it from Spaces without making it publicly available, even for a moment. I found out that it is possible from this tutori...
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Yannek
DigitalOcean
Object Storage
DigitalOcean Spaces
Custom Images
DigitalOcean API and CLI (doctl)
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Hello everyone! :)
So I have created a droplet with Ubuntu 20, I have installed apache, mysql, php and everything I need.. I made it work perfectly as I need it.
Then I decided to create a image by following this tuto...
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hrvojeZap
Ubuntu 20.04
Custom Images
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Hi,
I have create a docker private repository in Images.
I push multiple docker images and tag them with versions number.
Yesterday, I try to clean the repository by removing all the old versions of the image (old tag...
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jeremiecampari
Custom Images
Docker
DigitalOcean Spaces
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Hi our spaces CDN (Content Delivery Network) Edge Cache TTL is set to 1 hr. Having deleted an image 3 days ago it still appears on the internet?
I cleared my local cache, used a different browser and even tried mobile...
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Kay86
Caching
CDN
Custom Images
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It looks like it's easy to create a droplet that includes Ant Media server.
I would like to know how to configure / provision that droplet.
I'm trying to set up a livestreaming server for a local yoga studio. Expect...
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jschauer
Scaling
Custom Images
High Availability
Getting Started
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Hi,
I created a droplet from marketplace app, how could I rebuild the droplet with it?
Thanks
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imj
Custom Images
DigitalOcean
Miscellaneous
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Hello,
I have created a custom image - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Virtualbox following the Digital Ocean instructions (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-digitalocean-droplet-from-an-ubuntu-iso-...
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laureng
Ubuntu 20.04
Custom Images
Networking
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I have set up a DigitalOcean Container Registry which is backed by Spaces.
I host my applications primarily out of NYC regions
The Container Registry created its storage space in AMS3 not NYC3.
The problem:
- This wo...
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scottmc
Container
DigitalOcean
Custom Images
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I have built a custom application which runs on a kubernetes cluster. I tested out a wordpress application on a kubernetes cluster from the digital ocean marketplace. The database and the application was automatically...
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josecl
Custom Images
Clustering
Configuration Management
Initial Server Setup
DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes
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I would like to download an image for safe keeping. Server not being used.
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postmasterClam
Custom Images
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It used to be the droplet's name, but now it seems to be the original hostname. I'm running on a mountain pile of errors from my droplets because of that uninformed change.
Iaas should be reliable. The smallest of cha...
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joseassumpcao
Custom Images
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Hi, after i uploaded my custom image and made it into a VPS in the installation screen i get this error.
"Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive. if so y...
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tiffanystripe
Custom Images
Ubuntu