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Cloud ready and Lightweight Alpine Linux distribution with built-in support for Docker.
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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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OtherLinux 3.23.2
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Try this product free for 10 days according to the free trial terms set by the vendor. Usage-based pricing is in effect for usage beyond the free trial terms. Your free trial gets automatically converted to a paid subscription when the trial ends, but may be canceled any time before that.
Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covers your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
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t3.micro Recommended | $0.02 |
t2.micro | $0.02 |
r5.xlarge | $0.02 |
r3.large | $0.02 |
r3.8xlarge | $0.02 |
r5d.large | $0.02 |
m4.2xlarge | $0.02 |
r5d.8xlarge | $0.02 |
m5.16xlarge | $0.02 |
p2.xlarge | $0.02 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour based on the EC2 instance type you run this Alpine Linux with Docker image on. Each dimension maps to a specific AWS instance size, so pricing scales with the compute you choose. Smaller instances like t2.nano or t3.micro carry lower hourly rates, while larger memory, compute, GPU, and metal instances (such as r5.24xlarge, p4d.24xlarge, or u-24tb1.metal) carry higher rates. You are billed only for the hours each instance runs. There are no upfront commitments or tiers to select.
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You are billed one hourly software charge for each running EC2 instance using this Alpine Linux with Docker image. The rate matches the instance type you launch. Larger instance types carry higher hourly rates. Underlying AWS infrastructure charges for the instance apply separately from this software charge.
The hourly software charge meters only while the instance runs. Stopped or paused instances do not accrue software charges. You may still pay AWS for attached storage or other resources tied to the stopped instance, but the software licence bills running time only.
Each rate maps to a specific EC2 instance type. You pick the compute, memory, GPU, or bare-metal size that fits your workload. The hourly software charge scales with that choice. Running a machine learning task on a GPU instance costs more per hour than a small general-purpose instance.
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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 daemon version 29.1.3
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Docker ZFS 2.4.0 storage driver support.
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EFA driver 2.17.3 with libfabric 2.4.0 and RDMA 61.0 for low latency HPC applications.
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(updated Nvidia GPU drivers to 580.82.07) Nvidia GPUs for Machine Learning and other applications inside containers through the use of CDI.
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Docker buildx 0.30.1
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Docker compose 5.0.1
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Removed Docker compose-ecs
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Amazon ECR credential helper 0.11.0
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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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Limited support is provided for this product at support@okindev.com
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Customer reviews
Mahinsha N.
Best Linux image
Reviewed on Oct 19, 2023
Review provided by G2
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.
Ashutosh T.
Alpine Linux
Reviewed on Aug 10, 2022
Review provided by G2
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.
Gianluigi M.
Most light but simple Linux distro for container
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2022
Review provided by G2
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.
Samar S.
Small and powerful Linux distro that does exactly what's required to do.
Reviewed on Jul 27, 2022
Review provided by G2
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.
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.
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.
Ger
Is this legal?
Reviewed on Jul 05, 2022
Review from a verified AWS customer
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?