How do I upload new images to Hetzner Cloud using this Terraform provider?

[devurandom]

I was so far unable to figure out how to upload new images to Hetzner Cloud using this Terraform provider (or at all, for that matter). The documentation describes how to access existing images and it even hints at the possibility to upload images using Terraform ("This resource is useful if you want to use a non-terraform managed image."), but it is not obvious how to do that.

Hence my question: How do I upload new images to Hetzner Cloud using this Terraform provider?

[LKaemmerling]

You can not upload new images to the Hetzner Cloud. With the sentence:

This resource is useful if you want to use a non-terraform managed image.

It is meant, that you could access our system images like (ubuntu, debian, centos or fedora) as a datasource.

[suchwerk]

You can use hashicorp packer to generate server snapshots. These snapshots can be used (if referenced by their id) like:

resource "hcloud_server" "main" { image = "424242" }

[devurandom]

You can not upload new images to the Hetzner Cloud.

I would like to add information I got from customer support recently: It is possible to send customer support a download URL to an image and they will upload it manually and make it available in my Hetzner Cloud.

You can use hashicorp packer to generate server snapshots.

Thanks. That at least allows me to automatically create variants of the Hetzner system images.

[LKaemmerling]

It is possible to send customer support a download URL to an image and they will upload it manually and make it available in my Hetzner Cloud.

Just for correctness: You can not upload an image. The process you described is for iso files.