Operating systems

Get the list of available OS templates

To see available OS templates, call the List available OS templates endpoint.

Example request:

Make sure to replace the <api_key> with your own API key

The endpoint returns a list of operating systems, as shown in this example response:

When you create an instance, you can optionally select an operating system template by specifying a value for operating system label. For this, use one of the values for label returned by this endpoint.

Note
If you do not provide a value for operating_system_label when creating an instance, ubuntu_20_04_lts_nvidia is used as the default.

List of OS templates

We support the following OS templates. Use our API to find out which are currently available.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Nvidia)Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Nvidia/CUDA 12 drivers preinstalledubuntu_20_04_lts_nvidia
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Nvidia)Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Nvidia/CUDA 12 drivers preinstalledubuntu_22_04_lts_nvidia