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.

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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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$0.287/hour

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Instance type	Product cost/hour	EC2 cost/hour	Total/hour
t2.nano	$0.25	$0.006	$0.256
t2.micro AWS Free Tier Recommended	$0.275	$0.012	$0.287
t2.small	$0.30	$0.023	$0.323
t2.medium	$0.325	$0.046	$0.371
t2.large	$0.35	$0.093	$0.443
t2.xlarge	$0.375	$0.186	$0.561
t2.2xlarge	$0.40	$0.371	$0.771
t3.nano	$0.25	$0.005	$0.255
t3.micro AWS Free Tier	$0.275	$0.01	$0.285
t3.small	$0.30	$0.021	$0.321

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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes	$0.08/per GB/month of provisioned storage

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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

Docker version 25.0.3
(new) Docker ZFS 2.2.2 storage driver support.
(new) EFA driver 2.8.0 with libfabric 1.20.1 and RDMA 50.0 for low latency HPC applications.
(new) Access Nvidia GPUs for Machine Learning and other applications inside containers through the use of CDI.
Docker buildx 0.12.1
Docker compose 2.24.6
Docker compose-ecs
Amazon ECR credential helper 0.7.1
Login support via EC2 Instance Connect.
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 .
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).
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.
See https://aws.okindev.com/pytorch.html for an example NVIDIA GPU Docker PyTorch demo.

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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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Mahinsha N.

Best Linux image

Reviewed on Oct 19, 2023

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What do you like best about the product?

It is one of the best available Linux base layer images that I have been using for the past few months. It is effortless to configure and build docker images using the same. It is very lightweight and we can configure the same for any container build.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing specific. I never came across any negatives for the Alpine image.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Alpine Linux image helped me to build docker images and run containerized applications for my clients. It was very easy to configure and run the build.

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Ashutosh T.

Alpine Linux

Reviewed on Aug 10, 2022

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What do you like best about the product?

While using alpine Linux in the dockerfile the image that was built was of very lightweight due to it taking very less storage & it became very easily portable. We were using alpine Linux in almost all. the dockerfiles.

What do you dislike about the product?

While using alpine Linux in dockerfile some of the packages were missing while we were working with nodejs application & sometimes we faced issues while using sudo inside the container.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

before we used to use the ubuntu in the from of dockerfile , due to which the image size used to be more & then we switched to alpine Linux & image size got reduced to a very greater extent. We started building small size images.

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Gianluigi M.

Most light but simple Linux distro for container

Reviewed on Jul 31, 2022

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What do you like best about the product?

Alpine comes with only essential packages to run the Linux distro. The included package manager, APK, works as the same as APT. All commons packages, libraries and tools for typical containerized software services are available today.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes some packages or libraries require some more work to be configured and running correctly. But nowadays it is really simple to find out solutions over Stack Overflow or other sites.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Alpine Linux resolves our problem of having a complete, flexible but first of all secure and light unix distro to deploy our containerized microservices over Kubernetes.

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Samar S.

Small and powerful Linux distro that does exactly what's required to do.

Reviewed on Jul 27, 2022

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What do you like best about the product?

It's lightweight. When dockerizing your applications, the image size can easily go over 1GB with most of the space being used by the base layer, but not with Alpine.
Alpine is lightweight since it does not come already equipped with a lot of default Linux packages.

What do you dislike about the product?

There's not much to dislike about Alpine. If it were possible to have a desktop environment it would a good thing, but this is where Alpine Linux misses.
Community support is very limited and troubleshooting is a pain sometimes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using Alpine Linux as the base layer for all my Python microservices and data science-related apps and services. It's easy to set up and helps in getting started quickly.

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Ger

Is this legal?

Reviewed on Jul 05, 2022

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The link to the developer site (https://aws.okindev.com/ ) 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?

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