Will there be an update for Amazon Linux 2?

[RiccardoBoettcher]

The last release is around 3 years ago. Meanwhile has Amazon updated it's Amazon Linux to Amazon Linux 2 which brings a lot of changes.
I wanted to update it myself, but as the dockerfile is missing, I have no clue how to start.

[rajivr]

The last release is around 3 years ago. Meanwhile has Amazon updated it's Amazon Linux to Amazon Linux 2 which brings a lot of changes.

This project was started at a time when Amazon did not docker containers for Amazon Linux. Amazon has since produced Docker containers for their Linux distribution and has moved on to Amazon Linux 2 (which is based on systemd and follows an LTS model rather than a rolling-release model that Amazon Linux 1 was based on).

With the availability of Amazon Linux containers, there is really no need for something like baseimage-amzn. I have since moved on to work on other projects.

I wanted to update it myself, but as the dockerfile is missing, I have no clue how to start.

I had some tooling to produce this image. I don't recall where I kept that tools. In any case if you are considering working on containers and Linux distributions in 2020, I would highly recommend checkout NixOS and the overall approach that they take in assembling software.

Having worked on various Linux distributions in the past, I think NixOS (or NixOS inspired systems) is perhaps the future!