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Amazon Linux for Docker

A small Amazon Linux base image designed for use in containers.

All non-required packages were removed to create this small image. When using this image you may have to install some of the packages that usually are installed on a regular Amazon Linux image.

Supported tags

What is Amazon Linux ?

Amazon Linux 2 is the next generation of Amazon Linux, a Linux server operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a secure, stable, and high performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. With Amazon Linux 2, you get an application environment that offers long term support with access to the latest innovations in the Linux ecosystem.

from aws.amazon.com

Getting Started

There are a couple of things needed for the script to work.

Prerequisites

Docker, either the Community Edition (CE) or Enterprise Edition (EE), needs to be installed on your local computer.

Docker

Docker installation instructions can be found here.

Usage

To start a container with this image and run a shell use the following command (the container will be deleted after exiting the shell):

docker container run --rm --interactive --tty fscm/amazonlinux bash

Build

Build instructions can be found here.

Versioning

This project uses SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

  • Frederico Martins - fscm

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.