Triton images

An image is a binary distribution of software which is deployed to be run in a container or virtual machine. This can be a template for an application, a database, an operating system, or other software. Images also contain permissions for specific Triton accounts as well as information which may connect the instance to other instances.

Joyent offers pre-configured software images for the three classes of compute instances we offer. Some images include pre-configured user accounts and useful applications to run a web stack out-of-box. You can run these images exactly as is or modify them to suit your needs.

If you prefer to setup your environment from scratch, you can provision a bare-bones image in which you compile the applications you want to use yourself. You can also provision images pre-configured as a database or load balancer.

Virtual machine images

We offer images for HVM-based hardware virtual machines to support applications running on a broad range of operating systems.

See information about virtual machine images, including bare operating systems and configured applications in instances → hardware virtual machines → images.

Available images include FreeBSD, Linux (not container-native), and Windows.

Infrastructure images

Infrastructure containers running container-native Linux and SmartOS, or pre-configured installations of up-stack software such as databases or load balancers offer the advantage of bare-metal performance with the elasticity of containers and security that's only available using Triton.

See information about available images, including bare operating systems and configured applications in instances → infrastructure containers → images. Also see details about creating a custom container-native image.

Docker images

Docker images on Triton can come from a variety of registries, public and private. See detailed documentation for connecting to those registries in instances → Docker → registries.