1. An apparatus comprising: processing circuitry; a network interface coupled with the processing circuitry; and logic, at least partially implemented by the processing circuitry, the logic to: generate a request to communicate to a remote computing device, the request to initiate generation of a bootable image in a cloud-based computing environment, the request comprising: block storage configuration information for a block storage volume for the bootable image, and a filesystem type for a filesystem mountable on the block storage volume for the bootable image, cause, via the network interface, communication of the request to the remote computing device, generate a software archive comprising a package of one or more files of software for installation on the block storage volume for generation of the bootable image, and provide, via the network interface, the software archive of the one or more files of software to the remote computing device for installation on a file system residing on the block storage volume for generation of the bootable image.