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Creating Custom Image from Digitalocean Droplet

The Custom Images feature in DigitalOcean allows us to import virtual disc images from an on-premises environment or another cloud platform and use them to start DigitalOcean Droplets. We can migrate and scale our workloads with Custom Images instead of having to recreate our environment from scratch. We choose a region for a custom image to be available in when we upload it. We can make Droplets in that region based on a custom image, and we can make our custom image available in other regions at any time.

Follow the below steps to create a custom image:-

1. Firstly, log in to the DigitalOcean control panel.
2. Then, select Create, and then Droplets.
3. Select the image Ubuntu 16.04.3 x64.
4. On Standard Droplets, select the smallest size.
5. Then, choose a datacenter location.
6. Use mykey as our SSH key.
7. Then, click on Create.
8. Get the IP and enter this command in a terminal:

   ssh root@ipaddress
9. Then, run the following commands one by one to install the proxy.

   curl --silent --location https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo bash -

   sudo apt-get install --yes nodejs

   curl --silent --location https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fabienvauchelles/scrapoxy/master/tools/install/proxy.js | sudo tee /root/proxy.js > /dev/null

   curl --silent --location https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fabienvauchelles/scrapoxy/master/tools/install/proxyup.sh | sudo tee /etc/init.d/proxyup.sh > /dev/null

   sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/proxyup.sh

   sudo update-rc.d proxyup.sh defaults

   sudo /etc/init.d/proxyup.sh start
10. Then, stop the last command (CTRL+C)
11. Turn of the droplet. When the droplet is turned off, the green icon disappears.

Create a backup

1. Firstly, select Images
2. Then, select our droplet.
3. Enter forward-proxy in Image Name
4. Finally, click on Take Snapshot

After a few moments, the new image will appear.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our Support team demonstrated how to create a custom image from a Digitalocean droplet.