General information about cloud server images

An image is an exact copy of the disk file system and its contents. You can create cloud servers from images or create boot disks for cloud servers.

Can be used for:

ready-made images — images with pre-installed operating system prepared by Selectel specialists;
own images — images that can be uploaded to the image repository by yourself.

You can work with images in the control panel, using the OpenStack CLI or Terraform.

You can also use applications to create servers.

Ready-made images

Ready images are prepared by Selectel specialists. For each ready image, the working environment is prepared, the necessary parameters are configured, and the image is built. The images are fully compatible with the cloud platform.

	Minimum resource requirements
	RAM	Volume
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 64-bit	512 MB	5 GB
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 64-bit GPU Driver 535	2 GB	10 GB
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 64-bit GPU Driver 535 Docker	2 GB	20 GB
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 64-bit GPU Driver 580	2 GB	10 GB
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 64-bit GPU Driver 580 Docker	2 GB	20 GB
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit	512 MB	5 GB
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit GPU Driver 535	2 GB	10 GB
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit GPU Driver 535 Docker	2 GB	20 GB
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit GPU Driver 580	2 GB	10 GB
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit GPU Driver 580 Docker	2 GB	10 GB
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit	512 MB	5 GB
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Intel VTune 64-bit	2 GB	25 GB
Ubuntu ML / Data Analytics
Data Science VM (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit)	4 GB	40 GB
Data Analytics VM (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit)	8 GB	100 GB
Debian
Debian 10 (Buster) 64-bit	512 MB	5 GB
Debian 11 (Bullseye) 64-bit	512 MB	5 GB
Debian 12 (Bookworm) 64-bit	512 MB	5 GB
Windows
Windows Server 2019 Standard	1 GB	32 GB
Windows Server 2019 Standard GPU	2 GB	32 GB
Windows Server 2019 DataCenter GPU A100/A2/A30	2 GB	32 GB
Windows Server 2019 Desktop Studio GPU GTX1080	2 GB	32 GB
Windows Server 2016 Standard	2 GB	32 GB
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard	1 GB	32 GB
Fedora CoreOS
Fedora CoreOS (Stable) 64-bit	512 MB	10 GB
CentOS
CentOS 9 Stream 64-bit	2 GB	5 GB
CentOS 8 Stream 64-bit	2 GB	5 GB
SelectOS
SelectOS 1.1	512 MB	5 GB
Astra Linux
Astra Linux Eagle 1.7	512 MB	5 GB
Astra Linux Voronezh 1.7	512 MB	5 GB
RED OS.
RED OS Standard 8	1 GB	10 GB.
RED OS Standard 7.3	1 GB	10 GB.
RED OS Certified 7.3	2 GB.	10 GB.
Alma Linux
Alma Linux 9 64-bit	2 GB.	5 GB
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux 9 64-bit	2 GB.	5 GB
Fedora
Fedora 36 64-bit	512 MB.	5 GB
Oracle
Oracle Linux 8 64-bit	512 MB.	5 GB

You can view the current list of ready images in the Control Panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → click Create Server → Source block → OS tab.

Own images

If you need an image to create a cloud server that is not in the list of ready images, you can upload your image to the image repository.

You can migrate servers from other cloud platforms or within the Selectel cloud platform using your own images, and clone cloud servers from disk images.

Supported image formats are .aki, .ami, .ari, .iso, .raw``, .qcow2, .vdi, .vhd, .vhdx, and .vmdk. Some .ami images (Amazon Machine Image images for running the server) require an additional download of .aki (Amazon kernel image) and .ari (Amazon RAM image) images.

Supported container formats are .aki, .ami, .ari, .bare, .ova, .ovf.

Cost

Most ready-made images are included in the cost of cloud servers and are not paid additionally.Asta Linux and RED OS images are paid additionally, as these OS require a license. You can view the license cost for a particular OS version in the control panel when creating a server.

The cost of storing your own image depends on its size and the pool it is uploaded to. Storage of your own images is charged according to the cloud platform payment model.

Prices for image storage can be viewed at selectel.ru.