Deprecated: This ustream commit added support for "generic" images which basically work without modifications on Scaleway instances. This repository will no longer be updated since there is no longer any point to doing that. I will keep it existing since the generic image is only released for 3.20, and this repository built images for 3.19 initially.

Alpine Linux Cloud Image Builder

(but for Scaleway)

This repository contains the scripts and configuration files to build an Alpine Linux cloud image for Scaleway. It has been forked from the official Alpine Linux cloud image builder.

Building the image

Refer to the official documentation (see README.md.orig).

Use qemu-img to resize the disk to 2GB otherwise Scaleway's systems to import the qcow2 will not work properly and you will not be able to import it: qemu-img resize <disk-image> 2G.

Using the image on Scaleway

First of all, download the qcow2 file from the releases page and upload it into an Object Storage bucket on your Scaleway account.

Then, import the volume into a snapshot, then create a new image from this snapshot:

scw instance snapshot create zone=fr-par-1 name=alpine-base volume-type=b_ssd bucket=<YOUR-BUCKET-NAME> key=scaleway_alpine-3.19.1-x86_64-uefi-cloudinit-r0.qcow2
scw instance image create snapshot-id=<YOUR-SNAPSHOT-ID> arch=x86_64 name=alpine-base

Finally, create a new instance using this snapshot:

scw instance server create type=PLAY2-PICO zone=fr-par-1 image=<YOUR-IMAGE-ID> root-volume=b:5G name=my-alpine-instance ip=new

You can then connect to your instance using its public IP address, and the alpine user. Please make sure you have at least one SSH key in your Scaleway account before creating the instance, otherwise you won't be able to connect to it.