How to run AmazonLinux 2023 on a local Docker host?

I am building processes for using AmazonLinux and I want to do it on a local machine to simplify setup. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get the official amazonlinux image from hub.docker.com to run under Docker. Any suggestions?

ADDED 27 Jun 2024

The goal is to have a container that I can turn on and then see how it works. For example, these containers don't have common Linux/Unix tools like "ps", so normal system administration processes may fail. If I run the container without adding a process like httpd, the container starts up and then dies. I need the container to start up and stay up.

Dockerfile

FROM amazonlinux:latest
RUN yum install httpd -y
RUN systemctl start httpd
RUN systemctl enable httpd
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]

Command

docker build -t amzl_web .

Error

[+] Building 2.6s (6/7)                                                              docker:default
 => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                                           0.3s
 => => transferring dockerfile: 295B                                                           0.1s
 => [internal] load .dockerignore                                                              0.2s
 => => transferring context: 2B                                                                0.0s
 => [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/amazonlinux:latest                          0.0s
 => [1/4] FROM docker.io/library/amazonlinux:latest                                            0.0s
 => CACHED [2/4] RUN yum install httpd -y                                                      0.0s
 => ERROR [3/4] RUN systemctl start httpd                                                      1.6s
------                                                                                              
 > [3/4] RUN systemctl start httpd:                                                                 
1.185 System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
1.185 Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
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Dockerfile:5
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   4 |     RUN yum install httpd -y
   5 | >>> RUN systemctl start httpd
   6 |     RUN systemctl enable httpd
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ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c systemctl start httpd" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

Topics

Containers Compute

Tags

Containers Amazon Linux

Language

English

Leam

asked 2 months ago452 views

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Hi,

systemctl by default is not installed in the docker image. You can try to start the http service using something like /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND. Dockerfile could be updated to

FROM amazonlinux:latest
RUN yum install httpd -y
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/httpd"]
CMD ["-DFOREGROUND"]

--Syd

Syd

answered a month ago

Leam
a month ago
Hey Syd, that keeps it running, but I can't attach to it. Any suggestions?
Syd
a month ago
If you mean how to attach to running container, you need to use docker exec from another terminal.

docker exec -it container_id sh

You can get the container id from docker ps output

Hello.

How about acquiring the Amazon Linux 2023 Docker image from ECR using the steps in the document below?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/base-container.html