Creating images allow you to launch any AWS or GCP machine instance from RosettaHub and benefit from the lifecycle management of the platform. You can also easily connect to your instance from RosettaHub, as the platform keeps for you the connection credentials of your instance.
Step-by-step guide
Find the cloud image id that you want to use. For AWS The id of each AMI starts with ami-, for Azure you need to input the full resource id of your custom image, for marketplace images you need to input colon-separated publisher, offer, sku and version for example: Canonical: UbuntuServer:18_04-lts-gen2:latest
From the RosettaHUB dashborad, click the plus sign in the view Images
In Key Set: Choose they Keys that you want to associate with your image. The Keys and the image need to be in the same cloud region unless you are using images from the Azure marketplace.
In Label: input a label that will help you recognize the image
In Image Id: input the cloud image id
In User Name: input the user name that is associated with your image. For Windows images input "Administrator" for Linux Instances please refer to this AWS guide to find your image id: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html .
Select the Operation System of your image: Windows, Ubuntu, CentOS, Amazon Linux
Input the version of your Operating System
In Ports: Input the default ports that will be open for inbound traffic to your machine. When launching an instance, RosettaHub will always open the Ssh port 22 for Linux machines and the RDP port 3389 for Windows machines.
Click Create
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