Base images life cycle

To provide the best experience for customers, we carefully maintain the list of images that is displayed when you are building a new cloud server. For example, older versions of an operating system are sometimes removed from the default list, usually shortly after a newer version is released.

Images that have been published are never deleted, so even if they are removed from the default list they are still buildable via the image ID when using the Cloud Servers API.

Older images that have been removed from the default list are no longer maintained and might not contain the most recent patches or package updates.

See also

Image properties Data immutability On-demand images Importing and exporting images Scheduled images Creating custom images from servers Creating cloud servers from base images: Default base image configurations Base images life cycle Patching base images

Sharing images: Managing shared images Models of sharing images Planning to share or use shared images Preparing to share images Image-sharing roles Getting support for shared images

Understanding Cloud Images introduces key ideas. To learn how to put these ideas to work, start at Actions for Cloud Images.