You can call this operation to query available custom images that are newly created in a specific image family.

Description

  • This API operation only returns the available custom images that are newly created in the specified image family. Public images, Alibaba Cloud Marketplace images, community images, or shared images are not queried.
  • If no available custom images exist in the specified image family, the response is empty.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer. OpenAPI Explorer dynamically generates the sample code of the operation for different SDKs.

Request parameters

Parameter Type Required Example Description
Action String Yes DescribeImageFromFamily

The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to DescribeImageFromFamily.
ImageFamily String Yes hangzhou-daily-update

The name of the image family. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length and can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-). It must start with a letter and cannot start with http://, https://, acs:, or aliyun.

RegionId String Yes cn-hangzhou

The region ID of the image. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

Response parameters

Parameter Type Example Description
Image Struct

The image information.
Architecture String x86_64

The image architecture. Valid values:

  • i386
  • x86_64
CreationTime String 2018-01-10T01:01:10Z

The time when the image was created.
Description String testDescription

The description of the image.
DiskDeviceMappings Array of DiskDeviceMapping

The mappings between the disks and snapshots under the image.
DiskDeviceMapping
Device String /dev/xvdb

The device name of the disk. Example: /dev/xvdb.

Note This parameter will be removed in the future. We recommend that you use other parameters to ensure future compatibility.
Format String qcow2

The format of the image.
ImportOSSBucket String testEcsImport

The OSS bucket that contains the imported image file.
ImportOSSObject String imageImport

The OSS object corresponding to the imported image file.
Size String 80

The size of the disk. Unit: GiB.
SnapshotId String s-bp17ot2q7x72ggtw****

The ID of the snapshot.
Type String custom

The type of the image.
ImageFamily String testImageFamily

The name of the image family.
ImageId String m-bp1g7004ksh0oeuc****

The ID of the image.
ImageName String testImageName

The name of the image.
ImageOwnerAlias String self

The alias of the image owner. Valid values:

  • system: public images provided by Alibaba Cloud
  • self: your custom images
  • others: shared images from other Alibaba Cloud accounts
  • marketplace: Alibaba Cloud Marketplace images
ImageVersion String 2

The version of the image.
IsCopied Boolean false

Indicates whether the image is a copy of another image.
IsSelfShared String true

Indicates whether the image has been shared to other Alibaba Cloud accounts.
IsSubscribed Boolean false

Indicates whether you have subscribed to the image corresponding to the specified product code.

IsSupportCloudinit Boolean true

Indicates whether the image supports cloud-init.
IsSupportIoOptimized Boolean true

Indicates whether the image can be used on I/O optimized instances.
OSName String Alibaba Cloud Linux 2.1903

The name of the operating system.
OSType String linux

The type of the operating system. Valid values:

  • windows
  • linux
Platform String Aliyun

The platform of the operating system.
ProductCode String jxsc00****

The product code of the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace image.
Progress String 100

The image creation progress. Unit: percent (%).
Size Integer 80

The size of the image. Unit: GiB.
Status String Available

The status of the image. Valid values:

  • UnAvailable: The image is unavailable.
  • Available: The image is available.
  • Creating: The image is being created.
  • CreateFailed: The image failed to be created.
Tags Array of Tag

An array that consists of Tag data.
Tag
TagKey String TestKey

The tag key of the image.
TagValue String TestValue

The tag value of the image.
Usage String none

Indicates whether the image has been used to create ECS instances. Valid values:

  • instance: The image has been used to create one or more ECS instances.
  • none: The image has not been used to create ECS instances.
RequestId String 473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

The ID of the request.

Examples

Sample requests

https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action=DescribeImageFromFamily
&RegionId=cn-hangzhou
&ImageFamily=as-hangzhou-game-01
&<Common request parameters>

Sample success responses

XML format 

<DescribeImageFromFamilyResponse>
      <RequestId>E39053A7-C3E6-41FA-8F8D-F5BD8063E61C</RequestId>
      <Image>
            <ImageOwnerAlias>self</ImageOwnerAlias>
            <Status>Available</Status>
            <Progress></Progress>
            <Usage></Usage>
            <Description>testDescription</Description>
            <IsSelfShared></IsSelfShared>
            <Architecture>x86_64</Architecture>
            <Platform>CentOS</Platform>
            <ProductCode></ProductCode>
            <Size>40</Size>
            <IsSubscribed>false</IsSubscribed>
            <IsCopied>false</IsCopied>
            <ImageFamily>testImageFamily</ImageFamily>
            <OSName>CentOS 8.0 64-bit</OSName>
            <IsSupportIoOptimized>true</IsSupportIoOptimized>
            <IsSupportCloudinit>true</IsSupportCloudinit>
            <ImageName>testImageName</ImageName>
            <DiskDeviceMappings>
                  <DiskDeviceMapping>
                        <SnapshotId>s-bp1ejhb4r1lyu55t****</SnapshotId>
                        <Type>system</Type>
                        <Format></Format>
                        <Size>40</Size>
                        <Device>/dev/xvda</Device>
                        <ImportOSSBucket></ImportOSSBucket>
                        <ImportOSSObject></ImportOSSObject>
                  </DiskDeviceMapping>
            </DiskDeviceMappings>
            <ImageVersion></ImageVersion>
            <OSType>linux</OSType>
            <ImageId>m-bp1ejhb4r1lyu55t****</ImageId>
            <CreationTime>2020-03-17T06:19:19Z</CreationTime>
            <Tags>
        </Tags>
      </Image>
</DescribeImageFromFamilyResponse>

JSON format 

{
    "RequestId": "E39053A7-C3E6-41FA-8F8D-F5BD8063E61C",
    "Image": {
        "ImageOwnerAlias": "self",
        "Status": "Available",
        "Progress": "",
        "Usage": "",
        "Description": "testDescription",
        "IsSelfShared": "",
        "Architecture": "x86_64",
        "Platform": "CentOS",
        "ProductCode": "",
        "Size": 40,
        "IsSubscribed": false,
        "IsCopied": false,
        "ImageFamily": "testImageFamily",
        "OSName": "CentOS 8.0 64-bit",
        "IsSupportIoOptimized": true,
        "IsSupportCloudinit": true,
        "ImageName": "testImageName",
        "DiskDeviceMappings": {
            "DiskDeviceMapping": [
                {
                    "SnapshotId": "s-bp1ejhb4r1lyu55t****",
                    "Type": "system",
                    "Format": "",
                    "Size": "40",
                    "Device": "/dev/xvda",
                    "ImportOSSBucket": "",
                    "ImportOSSObject": ""
                }
            ]
        },
        "ImageVersion": "",
        "OSType": "linux",
        "ImageId": "m-bp1ejhb4r1lyu55t****",
        "CreationTime": "2020-03-17T06:19:19Z",
        "Tags": {
            "Tag": []
        }
    }
}

Error codes

HTTP status code Error code Error message Description
404 InvalidRegionId.NotFound The RegionId provided does not exist. The error message returned because the specified RegionId parameter does not exist. Check whether the region ID is correct.

For a list of error codes, visit the API Error Center.