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Every Compute Engine VM boots from an image that contains the operating system, pre-installed software, and configuration. Google Cloud provides a catalogue of public images maintained by Google and third-party vendors, and you can create your own custom images for standardised, repeatable deployments.
Public images are maintained by Google and trusted publishers. They are grouped into image families, where each family has a latest recommended version.
| Image Family | Project | Description |
|---|---|---|
| debian-12 | debian-cloud | Debian 12 (Bookworm) |
| ubuntu-2404-lts-amd64 | ubuntu-os-cloud | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS |
| rhel-9 | rhel-cloud | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
| rocky-linux-9 | rocky-linux-cloud | Rocky Linux 9 |
| sles-15 | suse-cloud | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 |
| windows-2022 | windows-cloud | Windows Server 2022 |
| cos-113-lts | cos-cloud | Container-Optimized OS |
| sql-std-2022-win-2022 | windows-sql-cloud | Windows + SQL Server 2022 Standard |
# List all public images
gcloud compute images list
# List images in a specific project
gcloud compute images list --project=debian-cloud
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