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  3. Importing an image from another cloud or folder

Importing an image from a different cloud or folder

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Updated at June 9, 2025

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 installed yet, install and initialize it.

    By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

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

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