Public images

Build off of publicly accessible images.

Public VM Images

If you do not want to create your own VM images, you can use either:

• Public GCP images

• Instruqt provided images

GCP images

You can use most public Compute Engine machine images. Popular images include:

• centos-cloud/centos-stream-10

• debian-cloud/debian-12

• debian-cloud/debian-13

• rhel-cloud/rhel-8

• rhel-cloud/rhel-9

• suse-cloud/sles-15

• ubuntu-os-cloud/ubuntu-2204-lts

• ubuntu-os-cloud/ubuntu-2404-lts-amd64

Instruqt images

Instruqt maintains the following Compute Engine images:

• Kubernetes (k3s)

  • instruqt/k3s-v1-35-2 (includes Docker Hub registry mirror)

  • instruqt/k3s-v1-34-5 (includes Docker Hub registry mirror)

  • instruqt/k3s-v1-33-9 (includes Docker Hub registry mirror)

  • instruqt/k3s-v1-32-13 (includes Docker Hub registry mirror)

  • List of historic images: https://github.com/instruqt/packer-k3s/tags

  • Source: https://github.com/instruqt/packer-k3s

• Docker

  • instruqt/docker-28-3 (includes Docker Hub registry mirror)

  • Source: https://github.com/instruqt/packer-docker

k3s is a lightweight Kubernetes image. Read more about it here.

Public container Images

Instruqt is capable of pulling public container images from Docker Hub, Quay, and other public container repositories.

• nginx

• ubuntu

• centos

• python

Instruqt images

Instruqt provides a cloud-client container image, which includes all of the public cloud CLI tools (awscli, az, and gcloud) pre-installed.

• gcr.io/instruqt/cloud-client