- With Amazon Linux 2, you get an application environment that offers long term support with access to the latest innovations in the Linux ecosystem. It is also available as a Docker container image and as a virtual machine image for use on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Oracle VM VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware ESXi.
- To install Docker on an Amazon EC2 instance. Launch an instance with the Amazon Linux 2 AMI. For more information, see Launching an Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances. Connect to your instance.
Amazon Linux 2 is the next generation of Amazon Linux, a Linux server operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a secure, stable, and high performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. With Amazon Linux 2, you get an application environment that offers long term support with access to the latest innovations in the Linux ecosystem. Amazon Linux 2 is provided at no additional charge.
By default, Docker points to a local context called default (that is the Docker runtime on your machine) but we will add an Amazon ECS context using the command docker context create ecs. A note on the AWS credentials: if you are already familiar with AWS you probably already have your AWS CLI environment ready with either a default or named.
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Amazon Linux 2 is available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is also available as a Docker container image and as a virtual machine image for use on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Oracle VM VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware ESXi. The virtual machine images can be used for on-premises development and testing. Amazon Linux 2 supports the latest Amazon EC2 features and includes packages that enable easy integration with AWS. AWS provides ongoing security and maintenance updates for Amazon Linux 2.