Available Images

In the NETWAYS Cloud you have a range of public images available for installing cloud servers.

Overview of Available Images

OS Family	Version	ID
AlmaLinux	10	`e35bc110-ab0c-4667-a865-59fd8aa7966b`
AlmaLinux	8	`bd31ff4f-16a7-4297-a60b-a319f71391ac`
AlmaLinux	9	`773f74a6-35a9-4d04-bb21-82f63417634c`
CentOS Stream	10	`68b438f8-140d-4f03-80e2-d4f52556df2c`
CentOS Stream	9	`2787ebcc-e6c9-4fd0-8a15-8ab7074d3b64`
Debian	11	`cdfc1b5c-3830-446f-8078-c07bf46e8b9c`
Debian	12	`850d1649-546e-4e51-86b7-d6ab965296e8`
Debian	13	`d0a20cb5-7d6c-4633-a2fb-94acc1283957`
Fedora CoreOS	Live	`8a3b99c2-6ed4-483e-b8dd-a9a8b1672f46`
Fedora CoreOS		`a0f9ef2e-645b-4e80-bdd9-864427de0af2`
Fedora CoreOS	39	`d8275d75-c34d-4768-889f-6117e541f8d0`
Fedora CoreOS	40	`b4fc2572-20a9-4d24-9308-ab7e934f22ad`
Fedora CoreOS	41	`687259ae-21d7-4e3d-b7ed-12d6ef93caa9`
Fedora CoreOS	42	`4d3674dd-3bbe-40ba-bd9c-99efd8ed156a`
Fedora CoreOS	43	`03644c6a-1f3e-46c4-94c4-df80aec2a400`
Fedora CoreOS	44	`ac5b9334-b6d1-4ff0-8ae6-890d16c53079`
Fedora CoreOS	GPU	`ea6a2624-8faa-4e16-b445-d96e3a93c214`
GardenLinux	1877.1	`37eb8ba8-c630-4a4a-abd8-d3368af78283`
NETWAYS Rescue Image		`bec9c564-8ca0-47fe-8df1-1b7ec5ea7279`
NixOS	24.11	`b85a348f-9245-45e0-b1b4-544427846004`
OPNSense®	24.1.3	`344b3802-9caa-4ec9-8f30-354fe558ef2e`
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	9	`d1d82350-6405-4fc5-9d52-eab5062204e7`
Ubuntu	24.04.3 LTS ClusterAPI v1.33.4	`b37e25be-3308-46d5-8617-14e585929de5`
Ubuntu	Bionic 18.04 LTS	`4c051b07-d1ea-4b08-96be-1a4fa2d359eb`
Ubuntu	Focal 20.04 LTS	`01ff3be0-0646-4680-b074-8dfec3f7617b`
Ubuntu	Jammy 22.04 LTS	`5bdc55f8-aeb2-465f-a930-cd0f5818be92`
Ubuntu	Noble 24.04 LTS	`c38f2e9e-c051-42c4-aad8-bef5302e842d`
Ubuntu	Noble 24.04 LTS UEFI	`2d3ab2af-b52e-46e5-be2a-f0f447223d51`
Ubuntu	Resolute 26.04 LTS	`6907e0a6-8e97-4383-842d-7c595f12c024`
Windows Server	2019 Datacenter	`bd75bcb4-5aa0-4e47-8374-39759de5a12e`
Windows Server	2019 Datacenter Core	`5715c395-38fd-4887-bcc5-d2348e565c08`
Windows Server	2019 Standard	`c43fd618-4dd3-4a3d-a1b3-09b72f3b8638`
Windows Server	2019 Standard Core	`8ac13f7f-42d6-4acc-a479-f5e13d69ed8d`
Windows Server	2022 Datacenter	`e9207c1d-8a60-4764-808d-ea7dd61802b8`
Windows Server	2022 Datacenter Core	`7e6799bb-3d5c-44c2-9d50-129359203316`
Windows Server	2022 Standard	`c2b114a7-fd46-4fed-8ac4-949bffb17f9f`
Windows Server	2022 Standard Core	`fe63296c-d936-462b-953b-ec65e76261c5`
Windows Server	2025 Datacenter	`985dc671-5b6b-4671-994a-00ea1f595195`
Windows Server	2025 Datacenter Core	`32bd8716-1554-4f99-924c-ebea072a0c37`
Windows Server	2025 Standard	`2e99ad0f-a739-49a1-a0c6-b3650c2302d7`
Windows Server	2025 Standard Core	`9e36e6a7-7a6e-454e-96d1-cce5477536f1`
openSUSE Leap	15.6	`91fdbe76-c3b9-4248-ae58-310b6ced1053`
openSUSE Leap	16.0	`2fd5e11f-f0e7-45a4-9282-66192e9c98ba`

Querying Available Images

In addition to the list on this page, the list of available images in the NETWAYS Cloud can also be retrieved from the OpenStack UI or via the OpenStack CLI.

Query in the OpenStack UI

In Horizon you can view the list of available images from the top‑menu of a selected project. Navigate in the menu to Compute > Images.

Note that more than one page of results may exist.

Query in the OpenStack CLI

In the OpenStack CLI, after logging in and selecting a project, you can display the list of available images with the following command:

openstack image list

SSH Access of VMs

Depending on the image in use, the username for logging into VMs via SSH differs.

The usernames for the respective OS families are:

OS Family	Username
AlmaLinux	`almalinux`
CentOS Stream	`cloud-user`
Debian	`debian`
Fedora CoreOS	`core`
NETWAYS Rescue Image	`rescue`
NixOS	`nixos`
openSUSE	`ec2-user`
RHEL	`cloud-user`
Ubuntu	`ubuntu`

SSH Access for Windows and Co.

For some OS families, SSH access is disabled during provisioning or not possible at all.