Images

Instances can be created from a pre-defined set of curated images provided by Atlas or from arbitrary custom images.

Curated Images

Atlas provides the following curated images verified for use with Atlas instances:

Name	Description
ubuntu22.04	Ubuntu 22.04
ubuntu22.04-cuda	Ubuntu 22.04 with NVIDIA Drivers Release 570 and CUDA 12.8

To create an instance from a curated image, specify the image as image://<image-name>; for example, image://ubuntu22.04.

Custom Images

Any publicly accessible QCOW2 or RAW disk image can be used as the image for an instance. To create an instance from a custom image, specify the image as the URL for the image; for example, https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.img.

Ephemeral Instances

Any publicly accessible container disk image can be used as the image for an ephemeral instance. For example, "image": "quay.io/containerdisks/ubuntu:22.04".