Selecting an image to deploy

Each Cloud Server is linked to an image, like in the following exemple:

nodes:

  - myServer:

      appliance: 'Ubuntu 14'
      cpu: 2
      memory: 4

Selecting an image from the standard library

Plumbery checks the standard library and looks for a matching image. The lookup is based on strings, so they are multiple ways to use this.

Example	Description
appliance: 'RedHat'	Pickup the first image with label ‘RedHat’ from the library
appliance: 'RedHat 6 64-bit 2 CPU'	Select the image with this exact name
appliance: 'Ubuntu'	Select the most recent version of Ubuntu
appliance: 'CentOS 5'	Select this exact version of CentOS
appliance: 'Win2012 R2 DC'	Go for a version of Windows that is adapted to data centres
appliance: 'Win2012 R2 Std'	Pickup a standard version on Windows operating system
appliance: 'Check Point Security Gateway (BYOL)'	Select an image from the Priced Software list

Selecting an image from the client library

If no image can be found from the standard library, then plumbery looks into the client library.

Example	Description
appliance: 'Web server with Chef client'	Select a client image with this name