Getting information about a disk image
- In the management console
, select the folder containing your disk image. - Select Compute Cloud.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Images. - Select the image you need.
- The Overview page will show the image details.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.
The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name
or --folder-id
parameter.
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View the description of the CLI command to get information about a disk image:
yc compute image get --help
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Get information about your disk image by specifying its name or ID:
yc compute image get <image_name>
Result:
id: fd8orln8oii5******** folder_id: b1g72vbihiut******** created_at: "2023-05-19T06:46:14Z" name: image-ubuntu-20-04 description: ubuntu-20.04.6-live-server-amd64 min_disk_size: "1488977920" status: READY os: type: LINUX
Terraform
For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform
If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.
If you don't have Terraform, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.
To get information about a disk image using Terraform:
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Add the
data
andoutput
sections to the Terraform configuration file:data "yandex_compute_image" "my_image" { image_id = "<image_ID>" } output "image" { value = data.yandex_compute_image.my_image.min_disk_size }
Where:
data "yandex_compute_image"
: Description of the disk image as a data source:image_id
: Disk image ID.
output "image"
: Output variable that contains information about the minimum disk size:value
: Returned value.
Instead of
min_disk_size
you can select any other parameter to get the information you need. For more information about theyandex_compute_image
data source parameters, see the relevant provider documentation . -
Create resources:
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In the terminal, change to the folder where you edited the configuration file.
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Make sure the configuration file is correct using the command:
terraform validate
If the configuration is correct, the following message is returned:
Success! The configuration is valid.
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Run the command:
terraform plan
The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes are made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will point them out.
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Apply the configuration changes:
terraform apply
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Confirm the changes: type
yes
in the terminal and press Enter.
Terraform will create the required resources and display the output variable values in the terminal. To check the results, run:
terraform output
Result:
image = "20"
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To get detailed information about a disk image, use the get REST API method for the Image resource or the ImageService/Get gRPC API call.