AWS has debuted “Bottlerocket”, a Linux-based open-source operating system that is purpose-built by Amazon Web Services for running containers on virtual machines or bare metal hosts.
Most customers today run containerized applications on general-purpose operating systems that are updated package-by-package, which makes OS updates difficult to automate. Amazon has said updates to Bottlerocket are applied in a single step rather than package-by-package. This single-step update process helps reduce management overhead by making OS updates easy to automate using container orchestration services such as Amazon EKS.
The single-step updates also improve uptime for container applications by minimizing update failures and enabling easy update rollbacks. Additionally, Bottlerocket includes only the essential software to run containers, which improves resource usage and reduces the attack surface.
Bottlerocket is now available in public preview at no cost as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
AWS debuts Bottlerocket, an open source OS for container apps – Siliconangle.com
Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced the debut of a new, open source operating system for software containers that run on bare metal servers or virtual machines.
AWS Bottlerocket is currently available in preview, and is a stripped down operating system comprised of only the components that are…
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