Importing an image from a different cloud or folder

To import an image from a different cloud or folder:

1. Make sure you have the following roles for the cloud or folder hosting your image:

   • Role for the cloud: resource-manager.clouds.member.
   • Role for the folder: viewer or compute.images.user.

   For more information on role assignment, see Assigning roles.

2. Import a copy of this image to your folder using the CLI:

   If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

   The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

   1. See the description of the CLI command for creating an image:

      yc compute image create --help
      

   2. To get a list of available images in the source cloud or folder, run yc compute image list --folder-name <source_folder_name>. Here is an example:

      yc compute image list --folder-name my-source-folder
      

      Result:

      +----------------------+-------------+--------+----------------------+--------+
      |          ID          |    NAME     | FAMILY |     PRODUCT IDS      | STATUS |
      +----------------------+-------------+--------+----------------------+--------+
      | fd8eq6b2fkut******** | first-image |        | f2ehc12fue73******** | READY  |
      +----------------------+-------------+--------+----------------------+--------+
      

   3. Select ID or NAME of the image you are importing.

   4. To import an image, run yc compute image create --source-image-id=<source_image_ID>. Here is an example:

      yc compute image create --source-image-id=fd8o0pt9qfbt********
      

      Result:

      done (12s)
      id: fd8eq6b2fkut********
      folder_id: b1g07hj5r6i4********
      created_at: "2024-08-14T17:45:44Z"
      storage_size: "2562719744"
      min_disk_size: "21474836480"
      product_ids:
        - f2ehc12fue73********
      status: READY
      os:
        type: LINUX
      

3. Check the result by running yc compute image list --folder-name <target_folder_name>. Here is an example:

   yc compute image list --folder-name my-destination-folder
   

   Result:

   +----------------------+--------------------+--------+----------------------+--------+
   |          ID          |        NAME        | FAMILY |     PRODUCT IDS      | STATUS |
   +----------------------+--------------------+--------+----------------------+--------+
   | fd8eq6b2fkut******** | first-image        |        | f2ehc12fue73******** | READY  |
   | fd8ghl1n3brd******** | second-image       |        | f2e87com7i95******** | READY  |
   +----------------------+--------------------+--------+----------------------+--------+