Overview
Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. This is a cloud ready image with support for Docker based containers. In addition to Docker and Docker Engine this image contains the Amazon ECR credential helper, Docker CLI plugins such as Buildx, Docker Compose and Docker Compose Cloud Integrations.
Highlights
- Alpine Linux
- Docker Buildx, Docker CDI, Docker CLI, Docker Compose and Docker Compose Cloud Integration.
- Amazon ECR credential helper, ZFS, EFA, NVIDIA GPU
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t2.micro AWS Free Tier Recommended | $0.275 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.275 |
c5d.24xlarge | $0.40 |
m5dn.24xlarge | $0.40 |
m5.metal | $0.325 |
t3a.medium | $0.325 |
d3en.4xlarge | $0.40 |
c3.xlarge | $0.40 |
c5.24xlarge | $0.40 |
c5ad.16xlarge | $0.40 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
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Docker version 25.0.3
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(new) Docker ZFS 2.2.2 storage driver support.
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(new) EFA driver 2.8.0 with libfabric 1.20.1 and RDMA 50.0 for low latency HPC applications.
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(new) Access Nvidia GPUs for Machine Learning and other applications inside containers through the use of CDI.
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Docker buildx 0.12.1
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Docker compose 2.24.6
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Docker compose-ecs
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Amazon ECR credential helper 0.7.1
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Login support via EC2 Instance Connect.
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For the EC2_INSTANCE_CONNECT service, allow SSH port access according to your region; please refer to the AWS docs and the provided link shown here: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json .
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For Nvidia GPU container access, you may need to change the nvidia.yaml template at /etc/cdi/nvidia.yaml to get the correct device paths (current nvidia.yaml settings are for the AWS G4dn instances).
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Before running any Nvidia GPU enabled containers, make sure to load the Nvidia kernel module(s) using the included Nvidia modprobe utility in /opt/nvidia.
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See https://aws.okindev.com/pytorch.html for an example NVIDIA GPU Docker PyTorch demo.
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Launch EC2 instance from the AMIs console in EC2 Dashboard
- Choose instance type and storage options.
- Create SSH key to login remotely.
- Create a security group with port 22 (SSH) enabled.
- Login remotely to instance with username ec2-user using either SSH or EC2 Instance Connect.
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Customer reviews
Is this legal?
The link to the developer site (https://aws.okindev.com/Â ) seems broken, and this does not seem affiliated with the official Alpine Linux distribution.
This AMI uses the official logo though, which is very confusing.
Apart from this - is there any advantage to use this image instead of the official AMI provided by Alpine Linux?
Works fine
Works as expected. Had some issues to ssh into the VM at the beginning.
What I missed was that the user is 'ec2-user'.
Setup a separate security group for ssh on my IP and it worked like charme.
No access
Concur with previous; no way to login with key, password, etc. Was unable to use at all, but had to pay for 1h of use.
Not able to SSH
Even after binding a key and opening a PORT for ssh, it asks for password for root user and no default password works for that.