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Tutorial
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 recently deployed a small laravel app on the digital ocean apps platfrom and images I had saved in my public/images folder are't displaying. My image tag looks like so
<img alt="image" src="{{ asset('images/port_s...
Accepted Answer:
Hi there @blaynebennett99,
I could suggest a couple of things:
Check the exact error that you are getting in your web console, it could be due to mixed content. If this is the case, then what you could do is force HTT...
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blaynebennett99
Laravel
DigitalOcean App Platform
PHP
PHP Frameworks
Custom Images
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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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so I try to install a custom operating system on my droplet but I notice that I cant upload .iso files and then I see the "custom images" section with the support of .vmdk and I tried Mega but it didn't work and I saw...
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Hi,
To upload a custom image you must provide a direct link to its file. Your link does not meet this requirement. To check it, run following command (I am assuming that you are running some Linux OS):
javascript
curl...
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ahmadzahalka5
Custom Images
DigitalOcean Droplets
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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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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 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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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
DigitalOcean 1-Click Apps Marketplace
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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Hi,
Wondering if it is possible to leverage the digital ocean droplet user_data field to run custom boot scripts on top of a pre-existing baseline snapshot.
The thinking being, that for setting up remote developer e...
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ryanbrink
DigitalOcean Droplets
Initial Server Setup
Custom Images
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Hi...
How do I export an image or a snapshot of a Droplets from my account to my local PC for development and backup?
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digitalstyle
DigitalOcean Droplets
Custom Images
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Hello.
When I try to import an image (vmdk disk) from VMWare cloud director via the API directly, I get an error "Your source URL is unreachable". At the same time, when I store the same vmdk disk in google cloud stor...
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GeorgeApiExplorer
API
Custom Images
Development
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Droplets
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I am uploading a KaliLinux2021.4.vdi to my Custom Images section in my control Panel, but as it seems that it is showing its status as Pending, I have been waiting for half an hour, the Image is uploaded on an other D...
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wow444
Custom Images
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I'm working on setting up my development/deployment pipeline for my ubuntu Droplet. I used the one-click Docker Droplet and have followed the guides Install nginx (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-...
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TurboLaser
Docker
Nginx
Ubuntu 20.04
CI/CD
Container
Custom Images
WebAssembly
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I have an Ubuntu 18.04 droplet with LEMP stack and my app. I would like to remove mysql and create a custom docker image having the OS, NGINX, PHP and my app.
Is there an easy way to do this without creating from scra...
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aytheta
Docker
DigitalOcean Droplets
Custom Images
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From the backend we are able to upload documents and images. Whereas from the front end, we are not able to upload images. It does not show any error, but it just doesn't get uploaded. I believe this could be a folder...
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steveDolphin
PHP
Custom Images
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As I tried following the guide below, I realized that RHEL's dnf does not have a reconfigure parameter. How exactly do I setup the DigitalOcean Data source on a RHEL based distribution?
https://www.digitalocean.com/co...
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epticrikez
CentOS
Custom Images
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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've installed Solaris 11 via custom ISO. I cannot SSH or use virtual console, what to do?
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wmeister86
Custom Images