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How to create an IBM Cloud VSI using a custom image

I want to use Terraform to create a new virtual server using an existing Customer Image, just like manually under https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/compute/images. I used an example code snippet and only replaced the name of the image (r010-...).

data "ibm_is_image" "centos" {
   name = "r010-489ff05b-1494-4a05-8b12-c6f44a958859"
}

# Virtual Server Insance
resource "ibm_is_instance" "vsi1" {
   name    = "${local.BASENAME}-vsi1"
   vpc     = ibm_is_vpc.vpc-instance.id
   keys    = [data.ibm_is_ssh_key.ssh_key_id.id]
   zone    = local.ZONE
   image   = data.ibm_is_image.centos.id
   profile = "cx2-2x4"
   
   # References to the subnet and security groups
   primary_network_interface {
     subnet          = ibm_is_subnet.subnet1.id
     security_groups = [ibm_is_security_group.sg1.id]
   }
}

The error message is:

Error: No image found with name  r010-489ff05b-1494-4a05-8b12-c6f44a958859

It seems that only public AWS images can be used.

Solution

  • Seems like you're using id in place of name here

    data "ibm_is_image" "centos" {
   name = "r010-489ff05b-1494-4a05-8b12-c6f44a958859"
}

    try using the name of the image