Cloud Images
These images are built using the
Alpine Linux Cloud Images Builder.
To report problems or request features, please open an
issue with detailed information.
NOTES
- Image variants are built for all cloud-valid combinations of
CPU architecture (aarch64 or x86_64),
firmware (BIOS or UEFI),
instance bootstrap system (Tiny Cloud or cloud-init),
and machine type (virtual or bare-metal).
- The login user for all images is "alpine". SSH keys for this
user will be installed from the cloud's instance metadata service (IMDS).
- Please refer to this (work-in-progress) document for some (rough) guidance
on how to import and launch these images with various cloud providers.
- Generic images are intended to be used on any cloud provider that
is auto-detected by Tiny Cloud or
cloud-init. Please consult the official
documentation for those projects for a current list of supported providers.
- We are no longer creating separate NoCloud and OCI images,
because they are auto-detected and use the same QCOW2 format as Generic.
- AWS, Azure, and GCP clouds are fully supported by
the Generic image, but using it requires converting the QCOW2 image first.
To avoid that extra step, we are still building the VHD (AWS and Azure)
and raw.tar.gz (GCP) images.
- For your convenience, AWS images are directly launchable from this
page (select a "Launch Region" to show region links); they are also
downloadable for importing into your own cloud accounts.
- For Alpine-specific cloud-init bootstrap notes, please refer to the
cloud-init README.Alpine.
- Images are signed with this GPG public key F26A DFAD BAE7 02EF 7AF6 3745 9DA7 EF23 BFFC DF22