Customizing an Image

You can create new custom machine images based on the default machine images.

Oracle Compute Cloud Service provides two default standard templates or machine images based on Oracle Linux 5 and Oracle Linux 6. For example, on OPCM version 17.1.2, these images are registered as:

  • /oracle/public/linux5_17.1.2_64

  • /oracle/public/linux6_17.1.2_64

These default machine images include required packages and device drivers specific to OPCM. All guest instances are instantiated from these images or versions of these images. 

For Oracle Compute Cloud Service, users can customize and upload new custom boot images based on one of the default machine images.

Note:

You cannot customize Platform as a Service (PaaS) machine images.  For example, you cannot use the Java Cloud Service or Database Cloud Service images to create your own custom images.

Alternatively to can create a machine image for each type of instance deployment, you can use the opc-init package to set up the customization to be performed automatically when an instance starts. For details, see Automating Instance Initialization Using opc-init

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