Official Runpod templates For explicit source packaging or template optimization, use runpod-build-template. For ordinary workload deployment, prefer an official template over building an image. Runpod maintains prebuilt images for common workloads; deploying one is a create + poll, with no SSH install step. This skill is the reference for what those images actually are . It does not manage infrastructure — deploy with runpod-mcp (if connected) or runpodctl . Terms — "template" vs the Hub Two different products share the word "Hub", and conflating them derails discovery: | Term | What it is |…