Chapter 6. Launching customized RHEL images to the public cloud platforms with the cloud provider tools

Procedure

1. In the AWS Management Console, navigate to Compute EC2 Images.
2. Copy your custom image to your AWS account to create a permanent copy. For details, follow the Copying your customized RHEL system image for AWS to a different region on your AWS EC2 procedure.
3. From the AWS Management Console, launch your image as an instance.

Procedure

1. Access the Images on the Microsoft Azure portal, and click on your custom image.
2. On the Overview dashboard, click Create VM.
3. In the Microsoft Azure wizard, configure the settings for the new virtual machine that you want to launch.
4. On the Review + create tab, review the information about your image and click Create.

Procedure

1. Log in to your Google Cloud account from your terminal:

   $ gcloud auth login

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2. Set the Google project where you want to create your image:

   $ gcloud config set project your-project-name

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3. Create the custom image:

   $ gcloud compute images create image-name --source-image composer-api-image-builder-uuid --source-image-project red-hat-image-builder

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   Copy the image-builder-uuid from the ComposeID API endpoint.

4. Access the Google Cloud Console from your browser, and locate your new image in Compute Engine Images.
5. To launch a new virtual machine from your image, click Actions Create Instance.