Google Built CentOS Image - Anyone have a download for this? - google-cloud-platform

I've looked for this across the web a few times, and I feel like this hasn't been asked exactly, or I may just be getting bogged down with the wrong syntax. Hoping to get an easy answer here (yes, you can't get this, is an acceptable answer).
The variations from the base CentOS image are listed here: Link to GCP
However, they don't actually provide a download for this image. I'm trying to get a local VM running in VMWare with this image.
I feel as though they'd provide this to their clients to make it easier to prepare for use of their product, but I'm not finding it anywhere.
If anyone could toss me a link to a pre-configured CentOS ISO with the minor changes, I'd definitely take that as an alternative. I'm just not confident in my skills with Linux enough to configure the firewall properly :)

GCP doesn't support Google-provied images for exporting. However, they support exporting images for custom images.
I don't have any experience about image exporting, but I think this works.
Create custom images
You can create custom images based on your GCE VM instance.
Go navigation -> Compute engine -> images page.
You can create custom image via disk or snapshot in this page.
Select one and create a custom image.
Export your image
After creating custom image successfully, Go custom image page and click "export" on upper side.
Select export format and GCS destination. then click export.
Now you have an image in the Google Cloud storage.
Download image file and import to your local VM machine.

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Is there a way to update the image used by node in slurm-gcp?

I installed slurm-gcp from that github using terraform in cloud shell.
https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm-gcp#install-using-terraform
There are two VMs created.
controller
login
I installed several applications in /apps to confirm that they exist.
I would like to edit node's /etc/hosts and add network tag (http-server, https-server) to run the applications.
But nowhere does it say how to modify the image used by node .
Is there no way to edit the image of the slurm?
Thank you.
As of the latest version of Slurm on GCP, the images are pre-built and hosted by SchedMD, and are used directly without the requirement to make build an image at deployment time. You can continue to modify the image by creating your own image. This is done by spinning up a VM with the public image pointed to in the tfvars, making your modifications, saving the image, and pointing your tfvars to your new image.
You can continue to use the custom compute/controller install scripts found in the scripts directory.

create a public Google Cloud image (or machineImage)

I published a gene mapping pipeline that can be downloaded from Github and run on a local machine. The problem is that server setting is not always available (or easy) to people. I created an instance and an image (or machineImage which I don't understand the difference) on Google cloud that can run the pipeline, however I could not make it public so people can use it to create an instance, upload their specific data (fastq files) and run it to map their mutants.
Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you
As John Hanley mentioned, you cannot make an image public.
According to the official documentation:
Compute Engine Images
Public images are provided and maintained by Google, open source
communities, and third-party vendors. By default, all Google Cloud
projects have access to these images and can use them to create
instances.
Therefore you can use the public images maintained by Google to create your instances.

What is the use of 'preview assets' in XCode 12?

This question is answered with "it contains assets for the preview canvas", which isn't enough information.
Does the preview assets folder give me any additional power over the preview canvas? If so, how can I utilize it?
Does the preview assets folder give me any additional power over the preview canvas? If so, how can I utilize it?
Preview Assets as it is seen below just by default registered development time only catalog of resources.
So you can store there any images, colors, files, ie any resources, which can be used in Preview Canvas only, for testing purpose. In example to not download one from internet, cloud, or fetch from database. Because Preview is for fast UI-only look & test, so data source is not important, so to test & tune UI you don't need to fetch external data but use locally stored test data.
You can add/name any other development time asset/folder in there as well.

Can you run After Effects on Azure Batch?

I am wondering if it is possible to install Adobe After Effects as an 'application' in Azure batch. If so does anyone know how to do it?
I've not tried it yet. I did do some research around this though and it looks possible.
It appears we need:
A VM image (like these prebuilt images)
Containing aerender.exe
With a blank file called ae_render_only_node.txt
in C:Users/Public/Public Documents/Adobe (to enable non-royalty bearing mode)
It looks like a user did it here, though not specifically in Azure Batch.

How to launch a Google Deep learning VM from google python client?

GCP has a deep learning VM available to run on their cloud compute platform. The details about the image is here
So, I am using the google python client to launch my instances and the documentation for this is available here. Now, the way one specifies the disk and the boot image is through this JSON blob:
'disks': [
{
'boot': True,
'autoDelete': True,
'initializeParams': {
'sourceImage': source_disk_image,
}
}
]
Now the source_disk_image is specified by the path to some public image like:
projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-9 or some variant of this type. Now, my question is how can I specify some marketplace image to be used for my instance?
If you're not attached to using the marketplace to create the VM, there's a lot of documentation about all the available Google Deep Learning images.
They live in the deeplearning-platform-release project, so, for example, I think (but am not sure) the default image you are referring to from the Marketplace you linked is projects/deeplearning-platform-release/global/images/tf-1-14-cu100-20191004 but you can also pull them by family and just get the latest versions, for example, projects/deeplearning-platform-release/global/images/family/tf-latest-gpu.
The gcloud images command is also pretty illuminating to see the description of a given family choice or image, e.g.:
$ gcloud compute images describe-from-family tf-latest-gpu --project deeplearning-platform-release
archiveSizeBytes: '322993843200'
creationTimestamp: '2019-10-06T13:57:56.932-07:00'
description: "Google, Deep Learning Image: TensorFlow 1.14.0, m36, TensorFlow 1.14.0\
\ with CUDA 10.0 and Intel\xAE MKL-DNN, Intel\xAE MKL."
diskSizeGb: '30'
...
Which looks a lot like the Marketplace description.
That said, it looks like the Marketplace might be doing other things though (e.g. there are checkboxes about installing particular drivers separate from choosing the image).
I think that #Ernesto's tip about creating an instance off the marketplace, and then viewing that instance via the REST link at the bottom of the instance page to find exactly how it was created is also good advice. However, in this case you probably want to view the disk that was created (not the instance, since once it is created it only references the disk resource), click on the rest link, and look for the "sourceImage" portion of the REST response.
e.g. from a regular old debian-9 disk (I don't have GPU quota so I can't actually create the marketplace deployment):
I was able to find the SourceImage of a Deep Learning found in the marketplace, for this example I'm using
NVIDIA GPU Cloud Image for Deep Learning, Data Science, and HPC
"name": "nvidia-gpu-cloud-image-20190809",
"selfLink": "projects/nvidia-ngc-public/global/images/nvidia-gpu-cloud-image-20190809",
"sourceDisk": "projects/nvidia-ngc-dev/zones/us-central1-a/disks/chetan-official-base-image"
Deploy an instance from the MarketPlace
Go to the instance and inspect the details from the UI
In the Boot disk section click on the image name
nvidia-gpu-cloud-image-20190809 it will take you to the image
details page
Click on REST at the bottom of the description
Find SelfLink or SourceDisk entry