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title: Personal installation templates end of life
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title: End of life for personal installation templates
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excerpt: Information about removal of your personal installation templates & workaround
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updated: 2025-04-28
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updated: 2025-04-29
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**This is an important piece of information, please read the entire message carefully.**
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**This is an important piece of information, please read the entire message carefully as you might be impacted in the future if you request an OS installation on a new dedicated server or an OS reinstallation on a dedicated server you already have.**
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## Context
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## Context<aname="context"></a>
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OVHcloud is constantly evolving and must adapt its offerings to the increasingly resilient and regulated cloud market. In order to meet those new challenges, **personal templates for dedicated servers OS installation** will be fully decommissioned on the **7th of October 2025**.
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- SSH public key,
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This decommissioning will be done in 2 steps:
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In order to simplify the OS installation on dedicated servers as well as the migration communication, a new API call `POST /dedicated/server/{serviceName}/reinstall`{.action} was created. This API call is the successor of the old route `POST /dedicated/server/{serviceName}/install/start`{.action}. The old route had the ability to target an OS installation from an OVHcloud template **or a personal template**. Old route and personal templates notion will be decommissioned, and new route only has ability to target OS installation from an OVHcloud template. Also note that the confused "OVHcloud template" terminology will gradually disappear in favor of "operating system".
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Personal templates decommissioning will be done in 2 steps:
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### Step 1: 17th of June 2025<aname="step-1"></a>
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- Customers will no longer be able to **edit** or **add** new personal templates.
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- Customers having personal template(s) and active subscriptions to dedicated servers will receive custom technical information by email to help them migrate their personal template(s) to the new /reinstall API call.
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- Customers having personal template(s) and active subscriptions to dedicated servers will receive custom technical information by email to help them migrate their personal template(s) to the [new /reinstall API call](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/reinstall).
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### Step 2: 7th of October 2025<aname="step-2"></a>
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Please note that customers will still have the email from the 17th of June 2025 with technical documentation based on their personal templates data to help them migrate to the new API call.
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## Instructions
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## Instructions<aname="instructions"></a>
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The following section contains specific information per usage of the service.
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The following section contains specific information depending on whether OVHcloud, SoYouStart or Kimsufi customer and whether you are currently using control panel or API to install OS on your dedicated server.
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### Using OVHcloud, SoYouStart or Kimsufi Control Panel<aname="ux"></a>
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- write a script that uses the API (best for automation, but requires programming skills): see section [Using OVHcloud, SoYouStart or Kimsufi API](#api) below.
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- move to the API console (recommended, good tradeoff): Once authenticated, you just need to provide the exact JSON payload with the OS installation details. **You will receive the payloads corresponding to your personal templates in the email communication that will be sent on the 17th of June 2025**.
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Although you could start exploring the examples and schemas of the [new API call in the API console](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/reinstall) and look at its [public documentation](/pages/bare_metal_cloud/dedicated_servers/api-os-installation), here is the temporary workaround you can follow until your receive the payloads in the email of the 17th of June 2025.
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Although you could start exploring the examples and schemas of the [new /reinstall API call in the API console](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/reinstall) and look at its [public documentation](/pages/bare_metal_cloud/dedicated_servers/api-os-installation), here is the temporary workaround you can follow until your receive the payloads for new API route in the email of the 17th of June 2025.
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#### OVHcloud workaround<aname="ux-ovh"></a>
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Then run the API call to trigger an OS reinstallation from your personal template:
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Then run the API call to trigger an OS installation from your personal template:
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- Select `v1`{.action}.
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If you are using the OVHcloud, SoYouStart or Kimsufi APIs to trigger OS installations from a personal template, you can continue using the `POST /dedicated/server/{serviceName}/install/start`{.action} API call until **the 7th of October 2025**.
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But please note that starting from **the 17th of June 2025**, you will no longer be able to add or edit personal templates.
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Although you will receive an email with all the details to migrate your API payloads to the [new API call](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/reinstall), feel free to start exploring the examples and schemas of the [new API call in the API console](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/reinstall) and look at its [public documentation](/pages/bare_metal_cloud/dedicated_servers/api-os-installation).
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Although you will receive an email with all the details to migrate your API payloads to the [new /reinstall API call](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/reinstall), feel free to start exploring the examples and schemas of the [new /reinstall API call in the API console](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/reinstall) and look at its [public documentation](/pages/bare_metal_cloud/dedicated_servers/api-os-installation).
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In your case, the end of the personal templates feature should simplify OS installation on dedicated servers. Indeed, the new API call [POST /dedicated/server/{serviceName}/reinstall](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/reinstall) brings all the possible customizations that the old API call [POST /dedicated/server/{serviceName}/install/start](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fdedicated%2Fserver&branch=v1#post-/dedicated/server/-serviceName-/install/start) was not able to offer without the need to first define a personal template under [/me/installationTemplate](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2Fme&branch=v1#get-/me/installationTemplate).
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