Images

Images are templates used to create compute instances.

An image can be a public base OS (like Ubuntu or CirrOS) or a private image owned by your project.

Concepts

Image ID

When you create an instance, you reference an image by its id:

• id — unique image identifier
• name — short name (e.g. ubuntu24.04)
• visibility — public or private

Metadata

Some images include additional metadata (for example, if an image was created from an instance snapshot).

Endpoints

• List Images

Authentication

Image endpoints require an API key:

x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY

See Authentication for examples in cURL, Node.js, Python, and Go.