Images (Distributions, 1-Click Apps, Snapshots, Backups, Custom Images)

Quake AI concept: Images

• DigitalOcean classifies images into specific types (snapshots, backups, applications/1-Click, distributions, custom) rather than OpenStack Glance’s more generalized image model with visibility/properties/metadata.
• Custom images are imported by providing a URL to a supported disk format (raw, qcow2, vhdx, vdi, vmdk) and have a documented max decompressed size (100 GB), which differs from typical OpenStack flows where images are uploaded directly to Glance and size limits are operator-defined.
• DigitalOcean image operations are through /v2/images in their API, not Glance (and images also include DigitalOcean-specific fields like kind values base/snapshot/backup/custom/admin).
• DigitalOcean's "applications" images (1-Click Apps/Marketplace style) are a first-class image type, whereas OpenStack commonly treats such preconfigured stacks as separate concerns (OpenTofu modules, Heat templates, app catalogs) rather than an image 'type'.