Can I copy an existing sprite to a new instance?

[epinzur]

I'd like to create a 'golden-main' sprite, with my repo checked out, packages installed, build cached, etc...

and then create copies of this to use as worker sprites... Ideally in parallel.

I thought I might be able to do this via checkpoints, but it doesn't seem possible.

I also tried creating a sprite of an existing one using the -s flag on create... but that didn't do the trick either.

Thanks!

[dissonantP]

Seconding. This would be so useful. When I boot up a script I run a series of scripts to install development dependencies, including some kind of heavy duty ones such as docker. It takes quite a long time.

Using checkpoints, I could maintain a pool of pre-configured sprites which I re-use for new development projects. But this requires an external orchestration system; it'd be much easier if I could quickly clone sprites or upload a prebuilt image.

[mattbrandman]

definitely agree especially to have some pre-installed tools would be nice like tailscale so I'm not re-downloading it everytime and risking connectivity issues

[convcha]

I would love to be able to assign instances to the users of my service using the pre-built Sprites images.