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title: Build an image from the source codes
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## Build an image from source

**Docker images are not official ASF releases but provided for convenience. Recommended usage is always to build the source.**

1. install release version (Apache releases are beginning from version 0.9):
```
# Assign Apache release version number to variable `APISIX_VERSION`, for example: 2.2. The latest version can be find at `https://github.com/apache/apisix/releases`

export APISIX_VERSION=2.9
make build-on-alpine
```

2. install master branch version, which has latest code(ONLY for the developer's convenience):
```
export APISIX_VERSION=master
make build-on-alpine
```