The misconception came from my lack of experience with non aws cloud providers. My bad.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 2:21 PM Bastian Blank <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:40:31PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:53:49AM -0500, Paul Dejean wrote: > > > Second of all I imagine that AMIs and Google cloud images and other > offical > > > proprietary format debian images are exempt from this rule, since they > can > > > only really be built from within the appropriate company's cloud > services. > > I really have no idea where this idea comes from. Of cause all of them > can be built outside of the respective infrastructures. The build > process simply does not care where it runs. > > The upload process to create a usable image inside the cloud systems > usualy can work from everywhere. This is true for GCE (and properly > documented) and for Azure (and not documented). > > > I have no idea about the equivalent AMI answer. > > The sole exception is AWS, where the images called AMI are built from > snapshots of existing disks, which can only be created by attaching > volumes to existing VM. > > Bastian > > -- > Phasers locked on target, Captain. > >
