15.2. Adding Google Compute Engine Images to Satellite Server

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Infrastructure > Compute Resources and click the name of the Google Compute Engine connection.
2. Click Create Image.
3. In the Name field, enter a name for the image.
4. From the Operating System list, select the image’s base operating system.
5. From the Architecture list, select the operating system architecture.
6. In the Username field, enter the SSH user name for image access. Specify a user other than root, because the root user cannot connect to a GCE instance using SSH keys. The username must begin with a letter and consist of lowercase letters and numbers.
7. From the Image list, select an image from the Google Compute Engine compute resource.
8. Optional: Select the User Data check box if the image supports user data input, such as cloud-init data.
9. Click Submit to save the image details.