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Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot | Sep 2023

On the GitHub repo (https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket), there are instructions for using it on VMware and bare metal:

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems | Sep 2023

On the server-side, there's Bottlerocket OS [1] (Amazon). They use A/B partitions for upgrades, and the idea is that you just run containers for anything non-base. Boot containers are used to do custom configuration at boot, and host-container (or DaemonSet, if you run K8S) is used for long-running services.

[1] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021) | Aug 2022

I've been meaning to take a look at Bottlerocket[^1] as an alternative to a custom spin of Kubernetes but we haven't really had a chance to dig into it. The folks over at Fly[^2] have built an awesome edge platform out of Firecracker, and ultimately, where I want to take the next generation of our internal compute offering. I am eagerly looking forward to any and all presentations they do on their work.

[^1]: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

[^2]: https://fly.io/docs/reference/architecture/

Migrating from Docker to Podman | Sep 2021

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There's also Bottlerocket, https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

I haven't used any of them, but maybe B.r. works with podman?

EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking | Aug 2021

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It would be interesting to know how fast is bottlerocket[0], which is Amazon's optimized OS for running containers, compared to Clear Linux.

[0] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

Containers Are Not the Future | Mar 2020

I'm not so sure that unikernels are the way forward. And in general, angry rants about technologies from the CEO of a company entirely devoted to some competing technology is generally best taken with a large grain of salt.

Undoubtedly there are risks to having the flexibility that a full OS provides, but the benefits to troubleshooting, incident-response, resource-sharing, and just plain operational flexibility are huge. Until there's a good story for managing unikernel-based microVMs at scale, they aren't going to make a dent in container-world.

I suspect the path we'll actually see pursued is more along the lines of Bottlerocket (https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket), which is basically the Linux kernel plus a containerd API that works with Kubernetes but doesn't expose nearly as much surface area.

AWS Bottlerocket: Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers | Mar 2020

Looks like it is free software. Dual MIT/Apache license.

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

AWS Bottlerocket: Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers | Mar 2020

A link to the actual source code (90% Rust) and README: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

And here is a post from AWS with more technical details: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/bottlerocket-open-source-os...

Bottlerocket OS | Mar 2020

Project is up on GitHub along with its supporting components: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket