almalinux/amd64 repository overview

⁠Quick reference

• Maintained by: The AlmaLinux OS Foundation⁠ Cloud Special integerest group(SIG)⁠

• Where to get help: the Docker Community Forums⁠, the Docker Community Slack⁠, or Stack Overflow⁠

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest, 8, 8.5⁠
• minimal, 8-minimal, 8.5-minimal, almalinux/8-minimal⁠
• almalinux/8.5-base⁠
• almalinux/8.5-init⁠
• almalinux/8.5-micro⁠

⁠Quick reference (cont.)

• Where to file issues:
  https://bugs.almalinux.org⁠ or GitHub⁠

• Supported architectures: (more info⁠)
  amd64⁠, arm64v8⁠, almalinux/amd64⁠, almalinux/arm64v8⁠

• Published image artifact details:
  repo-info repo's repos/almalinux/ directory⁠ (history⁠)
  (image metadata, transfer size, etc)

• Image updates:
  official-images repo's library/almalinux label⁠
  official-images repo's library/almalinux file⁠ (history⁠)

• Source of this description:
  docs repo's almalinux/ directory⁠ (history⁠)

⁠AlmaLinux OS

AlmaLinux OS⁠ is an Open Source and forever-free enterprise Linux distribution, governed and driven by the community, focused on long-term stability and a robust production-grade platform. AlmaLinux OS is 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL® 8 and it was founded by the team behind the well-established CloudLinux OS⁠.

⁠About this image

AlmaLinux OS⁠ images can be use with all OCI complaint⁠ container runtime environments like Docker, Podman and Kubernetes and serve as drop-in replacemenets for centos images as it reaches End of Life⁠.

⁠Platform image, latest tag

The default (platform) image is a general-purpose image with a full DNF stack and basic tools like bintools, find, tar, minimal-vim, etc.

The almalinux:latest tag will always point to the latest stable release of the default image. Major releases and minor releases are also tagged with their version (e.g. almalinux:8 or almalinux:8.5).

docker pull almalinux

⁠Minimal image, minimal tag

The minimal image is a stripped-down image that uses the microdnf⁠ as package manager which uses libdnf and hence doesn't require Python. This image is 52% smaller in size (37MB download, 102MB expanded), contains a very limited package set. It is designed for applications that come with their own dependencies bundled (e.g. GO, NodeJS, Java).

The almalinux:minimal tag always points to the most recent version of the minimal image. Tags for major (e.g. almalinux:8-minimal) and minor (e.g. almalinux:8.4-minimal) releases are also available.

docker pull almalinux:minimal

This minimal image has an additional tag almalinux/8-minimal, its a mirror of almalinux:minimal, created to be consistent with other UBI variants. So, docker pull almalinux/8-minimal image is same as docker pull almalinux:minimal

⁠Base image, almalinux/8-base tag

The AlmaLinux Base Image is designed to be a base for your containerized applications, middleware and utilities. Base Image includes some helpful OS tools like find, tar, vi, etc., and a full DNF stack. The Image has some differences in a package set than the default(platform) image.

docker pull almalinux/8-base

⁠Init image, almalinux/8-init tag

The AlmaLinux init image extends base image, designed to run an init system as PID 1 for running multi-services inside a container. The systemd enabled as init system in the image

docker pull almalinux/8-init

⁠Micro image, almalinux/8-micro tag

The AlmaLinux micro image is a stripped down image, distributed without any package manager. Micro image uses the package manager on the underlying host to install packages, typically using Buildah, or Multi-stage builds with Podman. Micro image is 82% smaller then base image, 68% smaller then minimal image in size (13MB download, 36MB expanded). It is designed for applications that come with their own dependencies bundled (e.g. GO, NodeJS, Java). Since this image has only very few packages, it is more secured compare to other images.

docker pull almalinux/8-micro

⁠Upgrade policy

All images for supported releases will be updated monthly or as needed for security fixes.

⁠How It's Made

The rootfs tarballs for this image are built using the livemedia-creator tool⁠. The build script and kickstart files are available in the AlmaLinux/docker-images⁠ git repository.

⁠License

View license information⁠ for the software contained in this image.