An “image” is a snapshot from which you can create new server instances.
From Rackspace’s own API documentation:
An image is a collection of files used to create or rebuild a server. Rackspace provides a number of pre-built OS images by default. You may also create custom images from cloud servers you have launched. These custom images are useful for backup purposes or for producing “gold” server images if you plan to deploy a particular server configuration frequently.
Manage Image resources.
Find a single item with attributes matching **kwargs.
This isn’t very efficient: it loads the entire list then filters on the Python side.
Find all items with attributes matching **kwargs.
This isn’t very efficient: it loads the entire list then filters on the Python side.
An image is a collection of files used to create or rebuild a server.
This image’s ID.
This image’s name.
The date/time this image was created.
The date/time this instance was updated.
The status of this image (usually "SAVING" or ACTIVE).
During saving of an image this’ll be set to something between 0 and 100, representing a rough percentage done.
If this image was created from a Server then this attribute will be set to the ID of the server whence this image came.
Delete this image.