Introduction to images
Alibaba Cloud Simple Application Server offers three types of images: application, OS, and custom. When you create a server, select the image that fits your needs. This topic describes the available image types, names, and versions.
Image types
Simple Application Server offers three types of images: application images, OS images, and custom images. The following table describes these image types.
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Application images include an application, its required runtime environment, the operating system (OS), and initialization data. After you create a server from an application image, you can use the pre-installed application immediately or customize its configuration. This provides an out-of-the-box experience and removes the need to upload and install applications. Note
Application images are built on a specific operating system. If you reset the server to a different OS image (for example, from an application image to an OS image), the pre-installed applications and data will not be retained. For more information about how to create a Simple Application Server instance from an application image, see Quickly build a website using a WordPress application image. |
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OS images contain only a clean operating system. They do not include application data or environment configurations. After you create a server from an OS image, you get a clean OS environment where you can install any application you need. For more information about how to create a Simple Application Server instance from an OS image, see Quickly create a Linux server from an OS image. |
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A custom image is an image that you create from a server snapshot. Use a custom image to create multiple servers with the same configuration. You can also share a custom image to Elastic Compute Service (ECS) to create ECS instances or replace the OS of an existing instance. For more information, see Overview of custom images. |
Application images
The following table describes the application images that are supported by Simple Application Server.
The supported images and versions may vary by region. The images and versions displayed on the buy page in the console are definitive.
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BT-Panel |
Alibaba Cloud Exclusive Edition 9.2.0 |
BT-Panel for Linux, developed by Guangdong BT-Safe Technology Co., Ltd., is a server management software that improves O&M efficiency. It supports one-click management for over 100 server functions, such as LAMP, LNMP, clusters, monitoring, websites, FTP, databases, and Java. This image is based on the 64-bit Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 OS. After you deploy BT-Panel, Alibaba Cloud users receive the following benefits:
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1Panel |
1.10.22 |
1Panel is a modern, open source management panel for Linux servers. With 1Panel, you can quickly install software, build websites, and easily manage your Linux server through a web-based graphical interface. This image is based on the 64-bit Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 LTS OS. |
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BT-Panel-Windows |
8.2.1 |
BT-Panel for Windows, developed by Guangdong BT-Safe Technology Co., Ltd., is a server management software that improves O&M efficiency. It supports one-click management for over 100 server functions, such as WNMP, WAMP, IIS, SQL Server, clusters, monitoring, websites, FTP, databases, Java, and PM2. This image is based on the Windows Server 2019 OS. |
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MaxKB |
1.10.2 |
MaxKB (Max Knowledge Base) is an open source Q&A system for knowledge bases that is based on large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It is widely used in scenarios such as intelligent customer service, internal corporate knowledge bases, academic research, and education. This image is based on the 64-bit Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 LTS OS. |
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Dify |
0.15.3 |
Dify is an open source large language model (LLM) application development platform. It combines the concepts of backend-as-a-service (BaaS) and LLMOps to help developers quickly build production-grade generative AI applications. Even non-technical users can participate in defining AI applications and managing data operations. Within the application image, the local model inference service ollama has pre-installed LLMs such as deepseek-r1:1.5b, llama3.2:1b, and llama3.2:3b, and has downloaded the nomic-embed-text vectorization model. |
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WordPress |
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WordPress is a platform for building blogs and content management websites. With templates and plug-ins developed by third parties, users can implement a variety of personalized features.
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WooCommerce |
9.4.7 |
WooCommerce is a free e-commerce software that lets you easily sell products and services online. Over the years, it has become the most popular e-commerce platform, used by millions of businesses of all sizes. WooCommerce was developed as an extension for WordPress, the most popular website building tool on the market. This allows users to build an e-commerce website from scratch or add shopping cart functionality to an existing WordPress site. The underlying environment of this image includes 64-bit Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 LTS, PHP 8.0.26, and MariaDB 10.5.22. The image is sourced from Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. |
Build an e-commerce website using a WooCommerce application image |
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Halo |
2.20.14 |
Halo is a powerful and easy-to-use open source website builder. It provides a user-friendly interface and rich features that allow users to easily create blogs and various professional websites or content management systems. The underlying environment of this image includes 64-bit Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 LTS, Nginx 1.27.2, and PostgreSQL 15.4. |
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Cloud-native Website Builder |
1.0 |
Cloud-native Website Builder is a cloud-native product for building websites. It features a content management system (CMS) and pre-installed responsive templates that you can switch between in the backend. You can easily build a website using the visual online template editor. The system is automatically deployed to an Alibaba Cloud server through the image. This provides your website with dedicated cloud resources for private data management, high-speed access, and security and stability. |
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Drupal |
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Drupal is an excellent open source content management system (CMS) platform used to build dynamic websites that offer various features and services. It combines powerful and configurable features to support a wide range of website projects, from personal blogs to large communities. This image is based on the 64-bit CentOS 7 OS. |
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Typecho |
1.1 |
Typecho is an open source platform for building blogs. It is lightweight, efficient, and stable, with a simple and user-friendly interface. This image is based on the Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 OS and comes pre-installed with PHP 7.4, MySQL 8.0, and Nginx 1.18. |
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phpwind |
9.0.1 |
phpwind is an open source community program that runs on PHP and MySQL. It features a lightweight architecture and is efficient and easy to develop, which allows users to quickly build and manage their communities. This image is based on the 64-bit CentOS 7.3 OS. |
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Pterodactyl Panel |
1.11.7.1 |
Pterodactyl Panel is an open source management panel for game servers, built with PHP, React, and Go. It helps players quickly set up servers for hundreds of popular games and provides a visual interface for game server management. This image is built on the 64-bit Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 LTS OS and comes pre-installed with Pterodactyl Panel, Wings (the backend), and Docker. |
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Global E-commerce Starter |
1.0.2 |
Global E-commerce Starter provides an integrated environment with professional e-commerce configurations. It comes pre-installed with tools such as browsers, remote connection clients, e-commerce clients, communication software, and document editors. This image is based on the 64-bit Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition OS. |
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Cloudreve |
3.8.3 |
Cloudreve is an open source cloud drive software that helps you quickly and easily build a personal or team-shared cloud sync drive. It enables cross-platform and cross-device file synchronization, file sharing, offline downloads, and team collaboration. This image is based on the 64-bit Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 OS and comes pre-installed with Nginx, Aria2, and MariaDB. |
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Nextcloud |
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Nextcloud is an open source cloud storage software that helps you quickly and easily build a personal or team-shared cloud sync drive. It enables cross-platform and cross-device file synchronization, sharing, versioning, and team collaboration.
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Docker |
26.1.3 |
Docker is a popular open source container engine. It allows developers to efficiently package applications and their dependencies into lightweight, portable containers. This enables faster application delivery, deployment, migration, and scaling. This image is based on the 64-bit Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 LTS OS. |
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LAMP |
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The LAMP image comes pre-installed with Apache, MySQL, PHP, and related components. It is a common environment for building web applications.
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LNMP |
7.4 |
The LNMP image comes pre-installed with Nginx, MySQL, PHP, and related components. It is a common environment for building web applications and is popular for its support for high concurrency.This image is based on the Ubuntu 18.04 OS and comes pre-installed with PHP 7.4, MySQL 5.7, and Nginx 1.18.. |
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Node.js |
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Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast and scalable network applications.
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ASP.NET |
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The ASP.NET runtime environment supports parsing for multiple ASP and ASP.NET versions and has SQL Server pre-installed.
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OS images
The following table describes the OS images that are supported by Simple Application Server.
The supported images and versions may vary by region. The images and versions displayed on the buy page in the console are definitive.
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Description |
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Alibaba Cloud Linux |
2.19.03 |
Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 is the next-generation Linux distribution from Alibaba Cloud. It provides Linux community enhancements for cloud application environments and is deeply optimized for Alibaba Cloud infrastructure to deliver a better cloud experience. |
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3.21.04 |
Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 is the third-generation distribution of Alibaba Cloud's official operating system. It inherits the features of Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 while further improving security, stability, and runtime performance to provide a better OS experience on Alibaba Cloud. |
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CentOS |
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CentOS is an enterprise-class Linux distribution based on the freely available source code from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. |
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Ubuntu |
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Ubuntu is an open source GNU/Linux operating system that is primarily for desktop applications. Ubuntu is based on Debian GNU/Linux, supports x86, amd64 (x64), and PPC architectures, and is built by a global professional development team (Canonical Ltd). |
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Windows |
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Suitable for running programs developed in Windows, such as ASP and .NET. Supports the installation of databases such as Access and SQL Server. Supports management by logging on using Remote Desktop. A Windows image requires a system disk of at least 40 GiB. |
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Debian |
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Debian is an open source image that includes the Linux operating system and some free software distributions. |
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OpenSUSE |
42.3 |
The OpenSUSE distribution is a stable, easy-to-use, and complete multi-purpose Linux distribution that is popular with system administrators, developers, and desktop users. Note
This image is not supported in some regions. The information on the console page is final. |
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Fedora Linux |
34 |
Fedora Linux is developed by the Fedora Project community. Its goal is to create an innovative, versatile, and open source operating system. |
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Anolis |
8.2 |
Anolis OS 8 is an open source Linux distribution released by the OpenAnolis community. It is 100% compatible with CentOS 8, supports multiple computing architectures, and provides a stable, high-performance, secure, and reliable operating system. |
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CentOS Stream |
9 |
CentOS Stream is a rolling-release Linux distribution that succeeds CentOS 8. |
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Rocky Linux |
8.6 |
Rocky Linux is a fork of CentOS and is downstream from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Like CentOS, it provides a stable version of Linux that is well-suited for servers. It is designed to be a fully compatible replacement for CentOS. |
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AlmaLinux |
9.0 |
AlmaLinux is an open source, community-driven project designed to fill the gap left by the discontinuation of the stable CentOS release. AlmaLinux is a 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 9 and is built by the creators of the experienced CloudLinux OS. |
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Custom images
You can create a custom image from a snapshot of a Simple Application Server. The following table describes the main operations that you can perform on custom images. For more information, see Manage custom images.
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Create a custom image |
By creating a custom image, you can save the data of a Simple Application Server. The created custom image can be shared to ECS or used to create other Simple Application Servers with the same configuration. |
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Share a custom image to ECS |
You can share custom images to ECS. If the configurations of your Simple Application Server no longer meet your business needs, or if you want to use ECS to deploy your business, you can share an image to migrate your business from Simple Application Server to ECS. |
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Unshare a custom image |
You can unshare a custom image if you no longer need to share it or if you want to delete it. |
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Share a custom image across accounts |
You can share a custom image with other Alibaba Cloud accounts in the same region. This helps you quickly deploy the same environment configuration to multiple Simple Application Servers and improves deployment efficiency. |
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Copy a custom image |
Simple Application Server supports copying custom images. You can use this feature to copy a custom image from one region to another. |
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Delete a custom image |
If you no longer need a custom image, you can delete it. |
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Create a server from a custom image |
You can use a configured custom image to create Simple Application Servers that have the same configuration. |