# Images

Images (disk images) are the artifacts produced by OPS. These disk images can be ran on a variety of hypervisors including the top public cloud providers such as AWS and Google Cloud.

All local images are stored locally in `~/.ops/images/` and can be viewed like:

`ops image list -t onprem`

OPS has several commands that allow one to work on disk images when not running them. This can help provide debugging support.

### ls

`ops image ls myimage`

Provides a 'ls' style listing of files in a local (on-prem) image from **rootfs** partition.

`ops image ls myimage --bootfs`

Provides a 'ls' style listing of files in a local (on-prem) image from **bootfs** partition.

### cat

`ops image cat g /etc/resolv.conf`

Cats the file out of an image.

### cp

`ops image cp -r redis-server lib .`

Recursively copies the output of the folder '/lib' into the host from the image 'redis-server' **rootfs** partition.

`ops image cp redis-server kernel . --bootfs`

Copies the 'kernel' into the host from the image 'redis-server' **bootfs** partition.

`ops image cp -r redis-server klib .`

Recursively copies the output of the folder '/klib' into the host from the image 'redis-server' **bootfs** partition.

### tree

`ops image tree redis-server`

Displays the tree output of local (on-prem) image from **rootfs** partition.

`ops image tree redis-server --bootfs`

Displays the tree output of local (on-prem) image from **bootfs** partition.

### env

`ops image env redis-server`

Displays the list of environment variables found in a local (on-prem) image.

### mirror

`ops image mirror myimage <src_region> <dst_region>`

Copies an image from one region to another. This command is for simple images or images that rely on ext. config stores.