Chapter 21. Preparing and uploading customized RHEL images to the Alibaba Cloud

Procedure

1. Log in to the ECS console.
2. On the left-side menu, select Instances.
3. In the upper-right corner, click Create Instance. A new window opens.
4. Complete all the required information. See Creating an instance by using the custom launch for more details.

5. Click Create Instance and confirm the order.

   Note

   You can see the option Create Order instead of Create Instance, depending on your subscription.

   As a result, you have an active instance ready for deployment from the Alibaba ECS Console.

Procedure

1. Log in to the ECS console, click Images, then click Import Image. A dialog window opens.
2. Confirm the correct region and enter the following information:

Procedure

1. Log in to the OSS console.
2. In the Bucket menu on the left, select the bucket to which you want to upload an image.
3. In the upper right menu, click the Files tab.

4. Click Upload. A dialog window opens on the right side. Configure the following:

   • Upload To: Choose to upload the file to the Current directory or to a Specified directory.
   • File ACL: Choose the type of permission of the uploaded file.
5. Click Upload.
6. Select the image you want to upload to the OSS Console.
7. Click Open.

Procedure

1. Connect to the system containing the image that you want to check by using the Alibaba image_check tool.

2. Download the image_check tool:

   $ curl -O https://docs-aliyun.cn-hangzhou.oss.aliyun-inc.com/assets/attach/73848/cn_zh/1557459863884/image_check

3. Change the file permission of the image compliance tool:

   # chmod +x image_check

4. Run the command to start the image compliance tool checkup:

   # ./image_check

   The tool verifies the system configuration and generates a report that in your screen. The image_check tool saves this report in the same folder where the image compliance tool is running.