How to create docker base image from Amazon Linux AMI

Question

I am beginner in Docker and i need to implement docker in AWS and i want to create my own images. From the docker docs, i followed the process to create a Dockerfile. My question is how to create a base image using amazon linux ami?

I have a amazon linux machine in aws and i have done some security restriction done in that instance. I want this instance to be a base image for my docker and i want to create other docker images from this base image with all the security restrictions. How can i accomplish this ? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you want only application compatibility, you can try centos image which amazon Linux is based on:

FROM centos

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