Hetzner Images API
Images are blueprints for your VM disks. They can be of different types:### System ImagesDistribution Images maintained by us, e.g. “Ubuntu 20.04”### Snapshot ImagesMaintained by you, for example “Ubuntu 20.04 with my own settings”. These are billed per GB per month.### Backup ImagesDaily Backups of your Server. Will automatically be created for Servers which have backups enabled (`POST /servers/{id}/actions/enable_backup`)Bound to exactly one Server. If you delete the Server, you also delete all backups bound to it. You may convert backup Images to snapshot Images to keep them.These are billed at 20% of your server price for 7 backup slots.### App ImagesPrebuild images with specific software configurations, e.g. “Wordpress”. All app images are created by us.
Hetzner Images API is one of 32 APIs that Hetzner publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Images. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and a getting-started guide.
This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Hetzner Images API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (APIToken).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 4
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Images are blueprints for your VM disks. They can be of different types: System Images Distribution Images maintained by us, e.g. “Ubuntu 20.04” Snapshot Images Maintained by you,…
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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