Its 2018 why doesn't Digital Ocean support IIS servers? C'mon now!!

I want to hard work on my site: https://galaxyxxi.com/ with this RDP

+1 for assuming custom images was a given. Unfortunately, I am time constrained with my customer So I had to resolve my needs through vultr and upcloud.

I'd like to be able to move my on-premise VMware disk image to a droplet.

Wow. Custom ISO would be amazing!!!!

As they were "done" with this feature - just had some last testing to do back in 2012 - and then ignored their customers until now - I have "limited" confidence in a statement NOW in 2018 saying "its on its way". I am pretty sure they have already lost multiple customers at this stage - and they have not shown their customers the respect enough to communicate with them.

Any ETA on this feature? Are we talking weeks, months, or years?

I hope for the future there is a pfsense add iso feature

thank you

I am getting fed up with DigitalOcean. They won't allow multiple IP per Droplet, but will give me Ip for a $5 droplet.
Now, I am finding out painfully I can't migrate a server over painlessly after convincing my client on how awesome DigitalOcean is - "was". Even Vultr has this feature.

agregue pfsence (Y).

We should at least have a choice of firewall appliances, that would quell the majority of 'custom iso feature' requests...

Please allow custom images!

Vultr even supports custom Windows ISO.

+1

Please allow Custom Images or at least add pfsence

Seriously?
I was so sure this was a basic feature that everyone supported, so I did not even check before I signed up.

I am using a custom Gentoo image for my CoreOS install at Vultr and it works great. Please add a custom ISO feat.

This is the only thing that is holding me back from using DO at the moment. Every account should be able to upload at least 1 free Custom-iso. Mine is about 300 mb. Also a share iso feat. would be nice for the community. Thanks in advance.

permitir imagens droplets pfsense

Yes

Need it now.

yeeeeeeees

It is good idea! This will give great benefits. I join this.

Acho importante ter a funcionalidade de carregar as ISOs, Terei que migrar de serviço.

+1

5 years ago and still not implemented? :(

Better yet just run iPXE and allow us to point to our own ISO or your stored directory of isos.

Without this feature I cannot use digital ocean for my needs. Every other cloud has this feature. You claim to be for devs, but you lack a crucial feature that devs utilize. It's very simple to implement. If you need to just provide a virtual IPMI interface.

I'm regretfully taking my business elsewhere until this option is available. There are too many competitors in the marketplace to be lacking what seems like a very basic piece of functionality since most others allow for this.

http://porteus-kiosk.org/server.html

I vote for ISOs too. :)

Sirs, it is impracticable to use the service without the possibility of custom ISO

Uplad ISO Please

Add boot from custom iso.

Must have!!! Sure this will attract a lot of new users!

yes we need this option

+3 votes for custom OS

This really would be amazing! We currently have to go to Vultr when we need a custom ISO what sucks as we all love DO so much more!

I'd actually like to install Windows Server 2016 from a custom ISO.

yes' we need that

Its fundamental boot custom ISOs in digital OCEAN +5

allow upload of ova files would be good enough~

I would absolutely like to have this feature implemented and am surprised it isn't already.

Boris.

The problems are that they can't be deployed to DigitalOcean's servers, as well as they would have a hard time booting. ;)

I voted on a separate idea for support of the Devuan distro. Either that or this should work: we need an OS as dependable as Debian but without that systemd plague.

I need to load up customer ISOs for ASterisk flavors Freepbx in mind here. It's much easier to load up a prebuilt ISO than have to roll your own - other vendors are doing this, D.O. needs to step up to the plate.

Thanks leon

Sorry guys but I don't think this is ever going to happen. They actually completed the code for it but clearly have no desire to release it [0]. It's obvious that DO doesn't want to allow this for business reasons, as they have never replied to this issue which has now been open for quite some time.

I would suggest Vultr or another provider that allows you to host custom ISOs, there are now many.

[0]:https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/176338623053045760

With Docker's release of the LinuxKit project, this becomes even more desirable -- and tantalizing! InfraKit provides the tooling to bundle secure, lean, portable linux subsystems customized with exactly the components the runtime platform requires.

https://blog.docker.com/2017/04/introducing-linuxkit-container-os-toolkit/

Yes we should have an option to upload our own ISOs or direct link for an ISO.

I'd buy a 300GB instance today if I was able to install from my own image....

Would be interested in using Digital Ocean if this feature was available. Iooking for an environment to deploy a number of custom debian based unified communication systems

HI,
We want our own ISo to be install while creating Droplet can you put that option so it will be ease for us?

Regards,
Mukesh . R

We are very Interested on this

I would like to abstract our network topology with a software firewall that supports OpenFlow or the like

being able to add an iso would be prudent. I would like to be able to use the freepbx official release which is a centos linux release.

+1 for Custom OS!

Yes! Do it please

Would love to be able to upload existing VMX. Would be willing to bend the CEO's ear to move the whole farm to your cloud because I like the way everything else works and of course the price would sell itself.

custom OS would be great

This would make my life a lot easier. In order to get a custom OS installed, I have to install Debian then pivot_root out of it so I can install Gentoo or whatever custom OS i choose to use. Put in a disclaimer somewhere that says your tech support cannot offer guidance on custom ISOs, because there *are* consumers out there who are a little more knowledgeable than a majority of your technicians. Or, at least make it so I can change the OS label on the Droplets view ... :-)

+1

Can this be supported by support ticket? VHD's would be awesome

pfSense on a droplet would be awesome

+1 on this feature as well !

So, Is there anyone out there similar to DO that *DOES* have this feature?

I think could add to upload not only customized ISO, but ready images in OVA / OVF format . This might be interesting for some customized solutions where is not possible to simple install from a fresh installation ....

+1 on this feature as well !

I'm looking at Vultr right now, which supports custom ISO images.

+1

We can not continue working on DO if deployment from Iso feature will not be implemented.
It is really really critical for us!!

...generally speaking, some form of (two ways!) portability between DO instances and workstation virtual machines would be really amazing

VERY VERY important FEATURE on Digital Ocean +1000

+1 for this

On many occassions, Due lack of this feature in DO, we have to look for VPS providers.

Please see if this feature is planned for sooner.

+1 for a custom .ISO upload. This is absolutely critical.

If a greater choice of Linux distros is not offered, then this is a must have!

I would like a Slackware droplet.

+1 for a custom .ISO upload. This is absolutely critical.

If a greater choice of Linux distros is not offered, then this is a must have!

I cant believe this is still not available?

I almost singed up for service but then remembered to check for custom ISO/OS support.

Added my vote.
Although, I see this has been here for 4 years. I presume there is a reason why a suggestion with thousands of votes isn't being taken forward?

Really surprised this isn't an option yet. I have 6 out of my 8 VPS's at Digital Ocean. The other two are at Vultr because they are appliances and are only supplied as ISO. Problem is the Vultr IP's have reputation issues that DO don't. Really really need DO to support this even if it's via a support ticket and support rep needs to approve the ISO first

+1 I too would like to install OpenBSD.

It's still not available. Seriously. :(

Yes This is a even better Idea than just adding SuSE as an Image.

+1

+1

Yes, I want to submit PfSense or OPNSense firewall image.

No idea why this isn't added or address yet. It seems so essential.

我希望在云端，可以使用自己的系统镜像文件来创建自定义虚拟机，或者自定义镜像文件账号之间分享，因为这会让用户们之间使用变得非常的方便，谢谢。

It's a very useful feature. I want to upload my custom ISO image of Nano Server (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/nano-server/getting-started-with-nano-server).

Is this still not available? I thought that after a few years, this would have been implemented.

Vultr has it for quite some time now. I'd like to support DO as well so please get this feature implemented.

Need to be able to run a Windows VPS! I have my own license. I really like DO for my Linux boxes, and would like to be able to do Windows as well.

+1 on windows and/or custom .ISO upload.

there is no way to upload an ISO image, in this report support only link to comment. I think it is in order to see if you have the option Vultr and therefore makes them better.

This may have been brought up already but it would be extremely useful to allow customers to use their own images. I have my own MS volume licenses and want a bare VM to use my own OS on. also, some of us may wish to host a droplet with our own custom image for development etc.

I would really like to be able to put in custom ISO's. Main reason is i would like to be able to spin up a pfsense server. I would settle for being able to spin one up.

Was hoping that they can at least manually to this since we would not be asking if its really not necessary. Hmmm I would have to think on removing the newly added droplet now.

So this is till not a thing. Oh well.

I could settle for bootable block storage volumes.

Need to host Windows Server

I'm just surprised why something so essential is not provided. Please allow some sort of a method to download and create snapshots, it is very important to be able to use stable images that are stable and production ready. If you already have a snapshot service you offer, it seems like it won't take too much more to be able to add our own to the list, as you already let us create them from the ones that exist.

PLEASE

+1 ... I am interested in OpenBSD support. Thank you.

+1 - I want to upload QNAP Q'Centre's VMware appliance, since I can't I'm unable to use Digital Ocean and must pursue other alternatives

I don't care if we have to pay for the ISO storage og even the bandwidth, or a small one-time fee or something for uploads. If we could just upload ISO's it would be great.

You are running KVM, so I would use one of my existing licenses I have for an older Windows Server, and run it on freaking 512MB RAM, just to provide TTS for our in-house callsystem, so I can shut down that old Windows server running in the corner.

Uploading an image on most people's Internet connections is going to be tough and will result in DO requiring dedicated ISP/IXP links for just the uploads of ISOs.

There would have to be large amounts of caching between DO and the ISP/IXP because many people would be uploading large ISO files at different bandwidths or data rates.

This is all doable, but it is not as easy as one might expect. It will take a decent amount of work from DO and ISP/IXP.

I think support ticket based service would be a little annoying.
Upload and go in my opinion.

Community run ISO upload system could be interesting with approval by community for opening the ISO to the whole community.

Its a basic data center feature to have a custom ISO on a server. So i would expect such a service over a support ticket.

Currently a customer with vultr.com - wanted to try DigitalOcean (referred by a friend) - this is such a basic feature for a cloud provider I took it for granted... now I feel like I wasted $10 bothering to sign up at all :(

Come-on ... this is 2016!

I tried Vultr but didnt like their method of charging you in advance for what they guessed you were going to use, so didnt stay with them. Others wont have a problem with this I am sure.

I have tried TransIP who also do not allow custom images but do provide more memory and discspace for less money.

very nice suggestion, i hope to see it so soon :)

Hear Hear! I would like to install Arch and the ISO changes every month. So, that would be an issue for your SAs.

yes. if this feature doesn't come in next 3-4 months I am actually gonna leave digitalocean and go with vultr.com which allows custom iso to upload and install from it.

This is a rather important feature and long overdue. I've been with Digital Ocean for 3 years, but am seriously considering switching service if this does not become available soon.

One mroe vote for custom images, I would like to run pfsense or possibly a juniper vSRX appliance.

I also like this feature, further more, not the standard slackware Linux, but some application which included Linux OS, with application, which has the scripts install from the bare VMs, and after install, all application finished installation.

To control the ISOs uploaded and avoid double upload the same image, allow users to share their images

Really wish this was a thing. So many votes and this is been waiting for over 3 years. Yet nothing so far. The ability to import and export VM's would make DO so much more money as people moved to them!

I really need this option to boot my custom images.

I need to boot scrollout f1, please add it or allow to install iso images.

We would love to host our AppBeat monitoring agents on DigitalOcean, but we need to upload custom images :(

Don't try ElasticHosts. We setup an account with them. Attempted to upload an ISO. Couldn't be done through their panel. And the panel has an awful UI. Needs work. Oh, and no refund even through we literally used it for less than an hour.

Guys, don't wait around for this feature. Go sign up for Elastichosts, In some cases the support staff will even dump the ISO into your account if it's too large to push up locally. bit.ly/1JXq3SH

I currently use vultr mostly because of this feauture. Please vote for it

Kindly allow that feature created account on DigitalOcean but didn't start using it right now just because there is no way i can use custom ISO. There is no benefit for me to use DigitalOcean without that feature. add custom ISO feature ASAP.

that or at-least a wide supporting for a net ISO.

I'm very interested in having this feature.

This isnt going to happen anyway guys. This idea was now over three years ago. It got to the point over 2 years ago of being "It will be out next week" but then they abandoned it without saying anything.

One more thing too, since it appears DO is "Gathering Feedback" on this suggestion. I would love to test this feature if you are considering implementing it anytime soon. I can test the website and/or API.

I would love this feature. I really would like to get Untangle running in DO - and very soon.

Hope to get gentoo here with you, guys.

Looking forward to this. Please enable ASAP. Specifically interested in Untangle and pfSense.

I would really be helped if SuSe/openSuse was available. or if I could upload it myself to use in a droplet

Do you guys have any news abouts this ?

Users should be able to mount their distort of choice and install it

must need feature

this is really a basic feature everybody would be happy to have

Elasichosts offers this bit.ly/1JXq3SH even on a free trial.

Still nothing, really weird since this is a great feature to implement.

More than 4K votes and still nothing?!!!
This is a vital feature and it should be there to help Sys-Admins in a variety of situations (i.e. Install custom OS, Load an OS iso for recovery and ...)

Not sure what to think about DO if a feature that was requested more than three years ago and confirmed to be in beta testing has not yet been pushed in production.

What's the holdup? Why aren't any updates on this?

You really need to allow Slackware, custom ISOs

Heya - I saw back in 2012 there was mention of this feature being in beta. Was this worked on any further, by any chance? Installing from an ISO is the *only* thing missing from DO to meet my needs.

Thanks!

James H

Signed up for an account with DO, found it didn't have this feature, and immediately moved to Vultr with higher spec hardware at a lower price. I would move back to DO (even at the higher prices) if this was implemented because I like their DC locations better.

Pls i relly need it

This is a backup vote for the event when OpenBSD droplet is not accepted.
With Custom Images, OpenBSD could be deployable.
pf of OpenBSD is good for firewall, traffic-shaping, load-balancing, VPN, encryption, etc.
Custom Image will be less convenient than droplet but it is acceptable.
Vultur also does not give OpenBSD image but allow custome install.

It will Help us to import Image to start a new Droplet with existing data and code structure, As sometimes we dont want to make changes to server which results in big cost for company.

I would love to play around with slackware 14 on a digitalocean droplet. This would be a very nice feature.

Please i really need this feature

any news?

What is going on with this?

I want to see the function that I can upload my own OS. I am making my own OS and I would like to install it on my doplet. I would like to see that I can install my own custom OS by uploading it to my ISO files.

Vultr.com has custom ISO and Windows capabilities. This lets me run my custom windows application along side my Linux clusters and let's me use custom ISOs like Zen Load balancer.

+1 to XFS filesystem on Ubuntu

i needed 6.5 centos and its not there ...very upsetting.

Please, please, this would be amazing! Also not just ISO's purhapse more importantly, I would really like to upload vms from vmware or virtual box.

+10

This idea is oder then three years. I think it is not in the roadmap of DO

How To Unlock Windows Computer From Android(Two factore authentication)

http://haktuts.blogspot.in/2015/08/unlock-windows-and-mac-computer-from-android-and-iphone.html

With custom ISOs I would be able to install OpenBSD on a DigitalOcean server... That would be great!
I'll wait for the announcement that DO offers OpenBSD / ISO upload on bsdnow.tv :)

This really needs to be done to keep D.O. competitive with other services. Right now they are lagging a bit behind others as I see many many services like them with this option as a default. I am looking for a place to upload some Slackware templates and unfortunately it will not work here. I have wasted 10 bucks and I am not really happy now. I will have to go to a competitor now to get what I need.Based on this fact alone I will ot be recommending D.O. as a serious place for business to my friends or customers.

I'd like to setup an IPFire firewall.

just found out that Vultr allows you to do it, and similar prices!

+1

+1
Being able to upload your own image is very important, why this isnt a feature simply baffles me.

This feature, along with what is currently feature #5, are critical to fixing the vendor lock-in problem at DigitalOcean.

If these features were available, I would unhesitatingly start up services at Digital Ocean and make regular downloads, uploading the ISOs through this proposed interface. I would occasionally look around and see if there were competitive services that were better than DO, and yes, I would take my disk images elsewhere if something better came up.

Currently, there aren't really better options, so DO would loose no business by doing this, and could gain customers by accepting images exported from Amazon, Linode, or other providers who offer this feature! However, until the lock-in is removed, I will be reluctant to spin up droplets knowing that I can never download the result or or upload it outside of the built-in interface.

Three and a half years later, how are we coming on this one?

i need this feature

With this people can load BSD and Windows instances too. DO can focus on giving reliable, performing platform where any OS can be used.

I really think this would be helpful. This could really set you guys even further apart from the competition than y'all already are.

People moving to Vultr because it gives more. People don't realize the time and money it costs to bring new features.

In my opinion, a custom ISO would be great.

Should have an option to upload you virtual image file eg: xen server image virtula box etc.

Also downloading should be great

I need this feature.

Only reason why I'm not using DO yet...

I also need this feature as well.

I still need a funtoo droplet. :D

I want to run IPCop, in VPS as my first Firewall.

Gentoo++, ¿why is not ready yet?

What is really needed here is not custom ISOs, but the ability to import custom disk images in either RAW or VMDK format

Centos 7 + Microweber

ISO for freepbx i have a small PBX that i need running.

People moving to Vultr because it gives more. People don't realize the time and money it costs to bring new features.

In my opinion, a custom ISO would be great. But there's usually the trouble of having to configure the networking yourself.

+Gentoo linux
+DragonFlyBSD

openbsd should be added considering the new features in the upcoming 5.7 release and that its minimalistic footprint is perfect for hosting pf and liber

Gentoo Linux

please!

Indeed, this would be a great feature, I look forward to DO's response...

Would love the option to add a custom Linux Image.

I just realized that I can download the image you use in production from http://stable.release.core-os.net/amd64-usr/current/

:) I'm good.

+3. I have a need for this now. I am not a big customer -- I only have two VPS-es currently. I have been using DO for quite a while now and would rather not leave them but unless we can have custom images soon, I may have to begin looking at what other providers are offering.

https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/176338623053045760 Where is this feature? Why on earth is DigitalOcean completely stalling on anything having to do with custom uploading/downloading of images? It's really scary that people have been asking for this so long and there hasn't been so much of a peep from them. What's the point of uservoice if you don't talk to your customers?

want this ;-)

It is a very very useful feature!

agree. i still did not use my "free usd 5" plus usd 5 that need to be paid to get that "free usd 5". so i have usd 10 credits. why? because of this custom iso. some intermediate to expert users want to install their own os, from specific distros and do not want to depending with digitalocean's template.

honestly, after several months i am using vultr @ http://m.azuan.my/r-vultr-vps.html i can says that: vultr is BEST comparing with digitalocean.

1. more 256MB ram ( 512 = 768)
2. can upload/install using your own iso

digitalocean should offer more than that. if your policy still not allowed custom iso's at least offer us something that different, for example extra disk space or ram, or even "extra ipv4" ;) rather than /64 ipv6.

I need this feature as well.

Yes this fuction will needed for sure!

+1 vultr
-1 digitalocean (no gentoo, no custom images)

DigitalOcean made a public notice saying this feature would be complete in a couple of weeks.. 2 years and 10 months ago: https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/176338623053045760

Thanks for the heads up on Vultr, it's fantastic, DigitalOcean really need to take a leaf out of their book

Moved on to Vultr, they have custom ISO's, more ram, and more server locations. I can't imagine why I would come back to DigitalOcean at this point.

This is a make-or-break feature for me creating new VMs - I want to use NixOS, which is not supported here.

+1

+1 for Gentoo

Any news on this issue?

+1 for this feature

Thanks for the heads up on Vultr, 768mb of ram for $5/month and custom ISO's. SOLD!

+333
2 years before .. Time to complete something!

yes please!!! I need an instance of vicibox which is a custom iso based on suse... please allow the upload of an iso and load from that... thanks!

+1 for disk images instead of ISOs. Just like AWS AMIs.

No sense, Vultr has less time in the business and they already allow custom ISO, and they use KVM as well as you... Moving to Vultr

GOSH I HATE CAPS LOCK, BUT THIS NEED TO BE SEEN.

+1 FRO CUSTOM IMAGES!!!

this "might" be useful... would love to see this feature

DO; could you please let us know something about the current status? I need to make decisions and this doesn't helps :(

I decided to use digitalocean, but I need Archlinux... Unfortunately, I'm disappainted.

+3 from me. good idea :D

any progress

+1 I need to install an ISO for another language. This feature would be most useful.

+1 it would be nice to use Gentoo

+1

After 2 yerars there is no progress.

+3

This suggestion is highly interesting. It might be a way for me to continue using ArchLinux on DO which i've appreciated in the past.

I would love to use DigitalOcean but this is unfortunately a show stopper. I need the ability to customize my kernel. Using stock kernels may be OK with some people, but I've never developed a serious application that didn't require some kernel customization at some point, whether for security patches, compatibility with programs I want to use, performance tuning, etc, etc...

I *might* be able use your service as is for development only, but it could never be used for production. Please fix this.

I'd love this feature.

This would be great. I want to run GitHub Enterprise on a custom server so that I can develop my service on it.

custom iso image is good.

The problem is they are using KVM Virtualization which I tried to do myself and let me tell you it is not that easy. You have to get ISO of Linux that is build for KVM kernel environment. You can get lots of ISO that are however when a new distro comes out you will have to wait till it is tested and KVM environment and the kernel is patched for it which can take some time. You can just try to install a distro anyway however there will be no guarantee that it will run stable in an environment it does not fully understand. Other visualizations such as VirtualBox, ESXI, etc.. does not have these issues.

why not planned yet?
ARE YOU SCARED???
DONT RUSH ON YOURSELF!
YOU CAN HIDE YOUR SELF BUT YOU CAN SEE YOUR SELF!

we need cutom IMAGES!!!!!
CUSTOM IMAGES IS GOOD!
BETTER THAN ORIGINAL IMAGES!
MORE TWEEK!
TWEEK IS GOOD!

Please add asap. Need 3.14 and later kernels.

Being able to install Kali or Tails would be nice. I know Tails is more ideal as a bootable usb but you can always redo the droplet

I love Gento/Funtoo and would like use it in this host.

A year and a half later.
Wahts the current status?

I have a *sighs* microsoft image I would like to upload.... fully licensed mind you but, totally cant leave IAD (Team Red) until i can move that .NET service (which cannot run in mono) app over.

I really need to see if Kali Linux image can be uploaded.

ye wan custom ISO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+999999999

or any custom ISO...

+!

Being able to create a server from a VM in addition to ISO would be fantastic. Some tools are primarily distributed in a VM instead of ISO.

Would LOVE to see this. This is a great idea and would make digital ocean my replacement for environment testing with applications and scripts.

upload own vm images at least, so we don't have to rebuild

"Releasing it in the future."

The future is here, it's knocking angrily on the door and wondering where the hojek its feature is.

So it's pretty crappy there haven't been any responses here... Amazon EC2 is expensive... but at least they provide good customer support.

+1 If I can't have more flexibility to use a custom distribution, I'm going to have to look at other hosting options. I have used ubuntu at work, but my heart belongs to slackware, and I definitely would like to run it on my DO box.

Come on digital ocean, you do such a great job on so many fronts; this would be an amazing addition :)

Started October 21, 2012, but not yet implemented? Forgotten?

Something like this would be really, really cool: http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/introducing-boot-dot-rackspace-dot-com.html

Either allow for custom images or broaden the actual choice of distros, somewhat limited.
We really need to have some DO options like freebsd/pfSense or Slackware Linux at least.

This is a must have for our business to switch to Digital Ocean.

we are now in Q2 2014 so where did u guys hide the button?

This is so overdue. I need this ASAP or I will have to go to another provider

great idea!

better than uploading your on ISOs would be the option to share images so that any user could initialize them (like AMI).

Would be great for CoreOS support.

Any updates about this ?

This should honestly be Digital Ocean's top priority.

CoreOS support would really be great for Docker users

I've been waiting for FreeBSD for a long time......

Just thought I would put my 2 cents in. My company would love to switch to digital ocean for a few hundred hosted VM's but the fact that we cannot not use openSUSE on them is the sole reason why we are staying with EC2.

I would be delighted when this is complete. 1. We get ISO upload 2. I get my mailbox back

Two years later, please allow me to have a look back for us:

NOTHING except a tag.

If this means CoreOS support, then yes please.

DigitalOcean keep us updated on this please! Transparency is important!

from @digitalocean 2 years ago:

"@jbarnaby we have a beta finished for ISO imports on admin side might be a week or two for the user side"

https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/176338623053045760

ubuntu has name collisions for nodejs, in gentoo there's not that kind of problem, thus making it easier

This will be very useful and give DO more relevante on the market.

Some ETA?

Yes, yes yes, yes yes!!!!

If you could snapshot your own local machines image, and then upload it so that it becomes a snapshot on your system. Id be really happy, even if auto populating network fields ect didn't work

Hola Pablo

Saludos

Por favor ayudame en la instalacion del elastix en este hosting. Estoy parado.

Jeepers...
Is this EVER going to happen?

If can't run slackware here I won't leave linode

If Slackware was available I'd migrate from linode

I dot think Digital Ocean will implement implement this feature EVER!!!!

As for security considerations........ not sure. It just seems to me that they were all excited about this about a year ago, implied it was done and they just needed to tidy up the front end and then I guess they hit an obstacle they had not thought of and decided to just clam up and hope we forget about it.

At this stage, although I come here every now and then to see if there are any updates, I strongly suspect this will never be implemented. This is a large shame tbh. I still recommend DO to people as even without this they offer the best value for money, but my early enthusiasm about the company and their great customer focus has slipped a lot in the last year.

Are there any security considerations for this not to have been enabled by default already?

Digital ocean seems to be exactly what I need, but I need a gentoo image, or a way to do it myself from some kind of rescue system, bring back gentoo and I ll buy a few droplets for sure

A basic minimalist gentoo image is enough ( just ssh working ;)

Well if you can also bring a hardened gentoo image ( grsec/pax/pie/ssp ) you will save me some time and I ll love you forever !

( also I m not in NY but I use gentoo for nearly 10 years and can help for gentoo related IRC support, for users or for digitalocean developpers )

I want this feature too, this and your service is perfect!

+3 This would be amazing.

+1 really would like to load my own Linux ISO's

Big up! It would be extremely cool, +1.

+1000

If I can boot custom kernel and install Gentoo Hardened, I will migrate from hetzner. Please, make it.

Wow... Another one of thsoe "STARTED" items, just like IPv6, that after a year and a half is still not implemented! Go figure.

+1, I also want to try SmartOS

I am a Gentoo developer and I offered to help with this in ticket #213380. William replied asking me to post my offer here for the Digital Ocean developers. Anyway, I am in NY and I am willing to help get Gentoo support implemented. My email address is my first initial followed by my last name @gentoo.org. If anyone from Digital Ocean is interested in my assistance, feel free to get in touch.

would like to upload AWS images to DO. Tomorrow would be fine.

I need Gentoo to migrate from linode as well.

For a full feature solution as Elastix is, we need to install from ISO in order to make it work perfectly, if you install Elastix in a droplet with centos, it will not work as it is expected, some components/modules will not work properly (reports, show call recordings).

Yet another pointless visit to view the status of this ... the DO admins have clearly tossed this and their customer focus out of the window.

Please consider to allow upload o request custom ISO installation...
some other VPS providers allow it (fliphost, lunanode, chicagovps, cloudsigma)...
Enabling this feature will grow up, other wise customer will migrate to other VPS providers...

I doubt they even pay attention to this thread anymore as it's been so long since a staff last updated here.

Dear DigitalOcean, are we ever to expect that feature at all? At least be honest.

+1
This would be great to use enterprise OS.
As for me I don't want to use Linux. I'd like to use Solaris x86.
S.

Hi i am interested in this please can you tell use, how whe can do this or when this are ready that was very helpfull.

thanks best Regards

+1 and custom kernels of course !!

I want Gentoo!

+3

Where is my Gentoo? :)

I'm needing to send my ISO. when will it be available?

Sorry about my grammer but I'm originally from China, hope you will understand

Uus Corp!

+1

We will migrate more machines from our local KVM

I agree, if we could mount and boot from an ISO image file, we could move our clients requiring Windows Server to your host. That being said, there is probably a good reason you don't offer this option that I'm not seeing, and do love your hosting service as it stands now.

C'mon, we need this.

+1

You guys could provide updates, ya know.

When it´s avaliable, I´would really love to run an F5 BIG-IP VE here :)

viva la slackware!

Please please please, can you get this sorted out - we've been waiting almost a year for this to be fixed.

Need win

Slackware 14.1 x86_64

Ditto on the Gentoo. I assumed I could run Gentoo on DigitalOcean, but I guess not.

Please! I need Slackware!!!

is a stage4 image really that hard? come on, guys, I don't want to go back to linode!

I want it too!

second this...

+1 iso option to upload our custom linux image

I finally decided to stop waiting and went to Linode

Looking forward to this. (Prefer Gentoo)

if you need more developers to test or integrate this; then let us know....we are ready to help....

I'm still waiting for Gentoo support before trying out DigitalOcean

In the interim, check out: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-freepbx-on-centos-6-4

Please support Gentoo!

Another customer here really keen to see this implemented. I'm investigating load balancing at the moment, and the ability to be able to build droplets from my own ISOs would be very useful !

Nearly Q4/2013 - still no official update. You're working on it for 1 year now, can you please give us an estimate?

Ubuntu 13.10 is now up but STILL no Gentoo =[

still no news? :(

I'd also need Slackware

I would sign up if Slackware was allowed.

I would sign up if there was the possibility to use Slackware.

We still wait for it..

I wonder if it's telling that the option to go to these "forums" seems to be missing (unless I missed it) from the revamped control panel. Maybe that is why there seems to be no staff updates on these pages - have they been relegated to historical without telling us?

agreed... particularly we need options like ,Custom partitioning kind of advanced options.

I very much hope that this feature becomes implemented as soon as possible, with the current OS Templates DigitalOcean has I can't update to 'latest and greatest' for arch...

Taken from /etc/pacman.conf

############################################################################
# Please note: if you update the linux kernel via pacman and reboot, you will
# lose access to your droplet! Please don't remove 'linux' from IgnorePkg.
############################################################################
IgnorePkg = linux

Very bad... can't update arch linux with current kernel level, and will not update. Why this is happening is very simply IgnorePkg in pacman.conf for arch is ignoring package updates for linux kernel and DigitalOcean tells you to leave this line uncommented or can't get back into your droplet... Note this is a design feature of DigitalOcean, and I have to pacman -Syu to get to latest kernel release. I wait in your response.

iso option would a nice addon it can help alot and make my work much easier.

We're now entering Q4 2013. Can we please have this ? :)

Thanks!

This is already requested at http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/3276477-allow-custom-images

Come on, even small players like iwstack allow own ISO, this is a very important feature and cuts your work, please update !

It's now Q3 2013, how's it going?

Also, uploading from imaging sources, such as SUSE Studio (https://susestudio.com) where .qcow2, .vmdk, .ova, etc. images can be prebuilt, saves you the headache of maintaining more system images.

Any news? pls

Linode allows to import any distro.

+1 please do it!

Went to set up a gentoo droplet and realized that was a no-go. Please bring it back. :)

This is critical. Could boost productivity a lot.