Publishing a Machine ImageΒΆ

In order to publish a machine image to a cloud environment or container, you must already have credentials to access that environment.

  1. If not already done, create an account for the target environment. For more information, see Managing Cloud Accounts.

  2. Go to the appliance and click the Machine Images page. If you have not generated a machine image, you will need to do so as described in Generating a Machine Image.

  3. Click on the arrow pointing to the right to publish your image.

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  4. Following the instructions, choose the account and fill in any additional information required.

  5. Click publish.

Note

Publishing an image to Amazon will launch an instance and therefore will be billed to the user account. Azure trial accounts are not supported for publishing images from UForge. Only full Azure accounts can be used.

Note

Currently, publication to Docker are only supported for Docker Registry v2.

  1. The publication will take a few minutes to complete (depending on the size of the image and the network connectivity between UForge and the target environment). The publication progress is shown. At the end of the publication, the machine image has been published by UForge to your target environment. The published image can be found in the target cloud environment or container.

UForge does not launch instances in the target cloud environment. If you wish to launch an instance from this machine image, you should go to your target cloud environment console for further actions.

Warning

If your Fujitsu K5 publish failed, there may be data published to cloud, incurring costs, even if not visible on your cloud account. You should run a cleanup manually. Refer to Chapter 2.7 Object storage

Note

When publishing an image, you have to comply with the license agreement of OSes and software which UForge handles, in particular:

  • Publishing OS image of RHEL subscription to public cloud
    Cloud provider has to be CCSP (Certified Cloud & Service Provider) and be registered to Red Hat Cloud Access. For more details, please confirm with cloud provider.
  • Publishing Windows OS image
    You must acquire Windows licenses in order to handle Windows OSes in UForge and confirm usage conditions of cloud provider and virtualization software which you publish to.