When working with multiple images, you can quickly locate your target image using conditions such as image type, image name, and image ID. This topic describes how to efficiently find your target image.
Find an image when purchasing an ECS instance
Go to the instance purchase page and select the Custom Launch tab.
In the Instance And Image section, you can quickly select the image you need from the Public Image, Custom Image, Shared Image, Marketplace Image, and Community Image tabs.
The Recently Used Images tab displays the images you have recently used, making it easier for you to quickly locate your target image.
Configure other settings for creating an ECS instance, and then follow the instructions on the page to complete the creation process.
Find an image on the images page
Go to ECS console - Images.
In the top navigation bar, select the region and resource group of the resource that you want to manage.
On the Images page, select the image type based on your business needs and find the target image.
Images are categorized as Public Images, Custom Images, Shared Images, Marketplace Images, and Community Images. The images displayed on the tab are the marketplace images that you have already ordered, not all marketplace images available on Alibaba Cloud.
If you need to use a custom image, you can also enable Image Family View to select an image through the image family. Image families are used to categorize a group of related images, which can help you better manage and use images. For more information, see Overview of image families.
Fuzzy search: In the search bar text box, the default is Auto Detect. You only need to enter the search value to match relevant image results.
For example, if you enter
image, the system will match images with names containingimage.
Exact search: In the search bar dropdown list, select Image ID, Image Name, Status, or other categories, and enter the corresponding information to search.
For example, if you select Image ID as the condition category and enter
m-bp18rrc2e8d8am******, you can search for the target image.
(Optional) After finding the target image, you can use this image to create an ECS instance.
Find an image by using API
You can find the target image by calling the API operation DescribeImages - Query available image resources.
For example, if you set ImageName to Image*, you can query all images with names that start with Image.
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After finding an image that meets your requirements, you can perform the following operations with the image: