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heathbar
heathbar

Reputation: 799

Does GCE work with distributions other than debian and RHEL?

I see only debian and RHEL images listed... What if I want to run ubuntu 12.04 or something else? Is there a way to bring up a debian instance and install ubuntu 12.04 on top of it and make my own image?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1224

Answers (3)

crb
crb

Reputation: 8178

For Ubuntu specifically, Canonical and Google now provide GCE images for Ubuntu.

You can find more information on how to spin up instances using these images in the GCE documentation.

Upvotes: 1

David Gageot
David Gageot

Reputation: 2536

Google offers images for Debian 7, CentOS 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. Windows Server 2008 R2 is coming soon

You can also build you own images

Upvotes: 0

Brian Dorsey
Brian Dorsey

Reputation: 4688

Since the General Availability launch, it is possible to use standard kernels with Compute Engine.

Paul Rashidi has posted detailed steps for creating a FreeBSD image. You should be able to create an Ubuntu image from scratch by following similar steps.

If you'd like to modify an existing image, here are detailed steps for creating a custom image.

Upvotes: 5

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