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 about assigning roles, 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 specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameters.

   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  |
   +----------------------+--------------------+--------+----------------------+--------+