Ubuntu Minimal Cloud Images (RELEASED)

As announced, Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) has reached the end of its life.

Ubuntu Minimal Cloud Images are official Ubuntu images and are pre-installed disk images that have been customized by Ubuntu engineering to have a small runtime footprint in order to increase workload density in environments where humans are not expected to log in.

For more information, please see the following:

• Ubuntu Minimal wiki page
• Ubuntu Cloud Portal
• Commercial Support Options
• Community Help Page

Cloud image specific bugs should be filed in the cloud-images project on Launchpad.net.

Launching Ubuntu Minimal

KVM

When launching the download image from KVM, you will need to specify the virtio network driver.

LXD

First add the new Ubuntu Minimal images simplestreams endpoint:

lxc remote add --protocol simplestreams ubuntu-minimal https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/

Launch the 21.04 Hirsute Hippo minimal image:

lxc launch ubuntu-minimal:hirsute

Ubuntu Minimal 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

File Name  ↓	File Size  ↓	Date  ↓
Parent directory/	-	-
release-20220119/	-	2022-09-02 10:53
release/	-	2022-09-02 10:53