AlmaLinux OS is an open-source, community-driven Linux operating system that fills the gap left by the discontinuation of the CentOS Linux stable release. AlmaLinux OS is an Enterprise Linux distro, binary compatible with RHEL®, and guided and built by the community.
As a standalone, completely free OS, AlmaLinux OS enjoys $1M in annual sponsorship from CloudLinux Inc. and support from more than 25 other sponsors. Ongoing development efforts are governed by the members of the community.
Learn more about AlmaLinux: https://almalinux.org/
This Docker container makes it easy to get an instance of SSHD up and running with AlmaLinux.
Based on Official AlmaLinux Docker Image with some minor hack:
- Packaging by Packer Docker builder and Ansible provisioner in single layer
- Handle
ENTRYPOINTwith catatonit - Handle
CMDwith SSHD
Start SSHD:
# Pull latest image
docker pull alvistack/almalinux-8
# Run as detach
docker run \
-itd \
--name almalinux \
--publish 2222:22 \
alvistack/almalinux-8
Success. SSHD is now available on port 2222.
Because this container DIDN'T handle the generation of root
password, so you should set it up manually with pwgen by:
# Generate password with pwgen
PASSWORD=$(docker exec -i almalinux pwgen -cnyB1); echo $PASSWORD
# Inject the generated password
echo "root:$PASSWORD" | docker exec -i almalinux chpasswd
Alternatively, you could inject your own SSH public key into container's authorized_keys by:
# Inject your own SSH public key
(docker exec -i almalinux sh -c "cat >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys") < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Now you could SSH to it as normal:
ssh root@localhost -p 2222
Release tags could be find from GitHub Release of this repository. Thus using these tags will ensure you are running the most up to date stable version of this image.
Version tags ended with .0.0 are rolling release rebuild by GitLab
pipeline in
weekly basis. Thus using these tags will ensure you are running the
latest packages provided by the base image project.
- Code released under Apache License 2.0
- Docs released under CC BY 4.0
- Wong Hoi Sing Edison