--- discourse: ubuntu:[New LXD image server available (images.lxd.canonical.com)](43824),[Image server infrastructure](16647) relatedlinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM0EgUqj2a0 --- (remote-image-servers)= # Remote image servers The [`lxc`](lxc.md) CLI command comes pre-configured with the following default remote image servers: `images:` : This server provides unofficial images for a variety of Linux distributions. The images are built to be compact and minimal, and therefore the default image variants do not include `cloud-init`. Where possible, `/cloud` variants that include `cloud-init` are provided. See [`cloud-init` support in images](cloud-init-support). This server does not provide official Ubuntu images (for those, use the `ubuntu:` server). It does, however, provide desktop variants of current Ubuntu releases. See [`images.lxd.canonical.com`](https://images.lxd.canonical.com) for an overview of available images. `ubuntu:` : This server provides official stable Ubuntu images. All images are cloud images, which means that they include both `cloud-init` and the `lxd-agent`. See [`cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases`](https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/) for an overview of available images. `ubuntu-daily:` : This server provides official daily Ubuntu images. All images are cloud images, which means that they include both `cloud-init` and the `lxd-agent`. See [`cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily`](https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/) for an overview of available images. `ubuntu-minimal:` : This server provides official Ubuntu Minimal images. All images are cloud images, which means that they include both `cloud-init` and the `lxd-agent`. See [`cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases`](https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/) for an overview of available images. `ubuntu-minimal-daily:` : This server provides official daily Ubuntu Minimal images. All images are cloud images, which means that they include both `cloud-init` and the `lxd-agent`. See [`cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/daily`](https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/daily/) for an overview of available images. (remote-image-server-types)= ## Remote server types LXD supports the following types of remote image servers: Simple streams servers : Pure image servers that use the [simple streams format](https://git.launchpad.net/simplestreams/tree/). The default image servers are simple streams servers. Public LXD servers : LXD servers that are used solely to serve images and do not run instances themselves. To make a LXD server publicly available over the network on port 8443, set the {config:option}`server-core:core.https_address` configuration option to `:8443` and do not configure any authentication methods (see {ref}`server-expose` for more information). Then set the images that you want to share to `public`. LXD servers : Regular LXD servers that you can manage over a network, and that can also be used as image servers. For security reasons, you should restrict the access to the remote API and configure an authentication method to control access. See {ref}`server-expose` and {ref}`authentication` for more information. ## Related topics {{images_how}} {{images_exp}}