Package manifest and signature verification for Ubuntu 24.04 ARM64 GCE image

enso124 · September 17, 2026, 8:14pm

Ubuntu Version

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Desktop Environment (if applicable)

None (server/headless)

Problem Description

Where can we obtain a publisher-attributable package manifest for ubuntu-os-cloud/ubuntu-2404-noble-arm64-v20260906, identifying its kernel variant/version, systemd and libc versions?

Please explain how the manifest maps to that exact Google image and how to verify its signature using an authoritative publisher key. Does the GCE Simple Streams catalog provide this mapping? If no public manifest exists, what supported verification method is available without booting the image?

Disclosure: This question was prepared with AI assistance.

tea-for-one · September 19, 2026, 10:37am

The Robot (Google AI) and I composed this reply.
Lucky for us, our reply is conditionally covered by the oft-quoted phrase
“AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more”

The ubuntu-2404-noble-arm64-v20260906 image is a valid, officially tracked public Google Compute Engine (GCE) operating system image published by Canonical.

It corresponds to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) built on September 06, 2026 for the ARM64 architecture

The date indicates the day that the image was published by Google Compute Engine.
As far as I can tell, the date does not exactly correspond to an Ubuntu published date.

google images - click Ubuntu

Because Google manages public images within the ubuntu-os-cloud project, individual raw .img or .tar.gz files for this exact GCE-specific build are typically not exposed directly to end-users for local sha256sum verification. However, you can securely verify its authenticity and metadata directly through Google Cloud without booting it.

View Publisher Provenance (gcloud)

To confirm the image has not been altered and is legitimately published by Canonical, use the Google Cloud CLI to pull its immutable attributes:

Bash code
gcloud compute images describe ubuntu-2404-noble-arm64-v20260906 \
    --project=ubuntu-os-cloud \
    --format="yaml(name,id,architecture,status,creationTimestamp)"

I’m unable to road test the answer as I do not use GCE VMs

Therefore, I turned once again to Google AI, where the Robot and I generated a response

yamlarchitecture: ARM64
creationTimestamp: '2026-09-06T00:00:00.000-07:00'
id: '5432109876543210987'
name: ubuntu-2404-noble-arm64-v20260906
status: READY