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Update an Image
put/v2/images/{image_id}

To update an image, send a PUT request to /v2/images/$IMAGE_ID. Set the name attribute to the new value you would like to use. For custom images, the description and distribution attributes may also be updated.

Path Parameters
image_idnumber
Body Parameters
descriptionstring
optional

An optional free-form text field to describe an image.

distributionenum
optional
"Arch Linux" OR "CentOS" OR "CoreOS" OR 10 more

The name of a custom image's distribution. Currently, the valid values are Arch Linux, CentOS, CoreOS, Debian, Fedora, Fedora Atomic, FreeBSD, Gentoo, openSUSE, RancherOS, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, and Unknown. Any other value will be accepted but ignored, and Unknown will be used in its place.

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"Arch Linux"
"CentOS"
"CoreOS"
"Debian"
"Fedora"
"Fedora Atomic"
"FreeBSD"
"Gentoo"
"openSUSE"
"RancherOS"
"Rocky Linux"
"Ubuntu"
"Unknown"
namestring
optional

The display name that has been given to an image. This is what is shown in the control panel and is generally a descriptive title for the image in question.

Returns
imageidnumbercreated_atstringdescriptionstringdistributionenumerror_messagestringmin_disk_sizenumbernamestringpublicbooleanregionsarray of enumsize_gigabytesnumberslugstringstatusenumtagsarray of stringtypeenumImage
curl https://api.digitalocean.com//v2/images/$IMAGE_ID \
    -X PUT \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $GRADIENTAI_API_KEY" \
    -d '{
      "description": " ",
      "distribution": "Ubuntu",
      "name": "Nifty New Snapshot"
    }'
200 Example
{
  "image": {
    "created_at": "2020-05-04T22:23:02Z",
    "description": " ",
    "distribution": "Ubuntu",
    "error_message": " ",
    "min_disk_size": 20,
    "name": "Nifty New Snapshot",
    "public": true,
    "regions": [
      "nyc1",
      "nyc2"
    ],
    "size_gigabytes": 2.34,
    "slug": "nifty1",
    "status": "NEW",
    "tags": [
      "base-image",
      "prod"
    ],
    "type": "snapshot"
  }
}