Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

Post by zokier » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 7:41 PM UTC

coder543 wrote: post #6

solatic wrote: post #3

As strong as the engineering behind Bottlerocket seems to be, I'm not entirely sure who they built it for, except as a foundational component for AWS's managed offerings. If you, as an AWS customer, decide to fully embrace AWS lock-in, then why would you run this yourself on an EC2 instance instead of running ECS or EKS? If you're trying to avoid AWS lock-in, why would you choose an OS that's locking you into AWS Sys…

If you're using an ECS or EKS Cluster, you still have to run some operating system on the ECS Container Instances. The containers have to run somewhere. There are a variety of options currently, including one from Amazon, but Bottlerocket seems designed to be a next-generation OS for container instances. It's extremely minimal, and designed to be as secure as possible, with transactional automatic updates. Ideally, I…

Post by e12e » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 7:44 PM UTC

NathanKP wrote: post #12

solatic wrote: post #3

As strong as the engineering behind Bottlerocket seems to be, I'm not entirely sure who they built it for, except as a foundational component for AWS's managed offerings. If you, as an AWS customer, decide to fully embrace AWS lock-in, then why would you run this yourself on an EC2 instance instead of running ECS or EKS? If you're trying to avoid AWS lock-in, why would you choose an OS that's locking you into AWS Sys…

Hi I'm a developer advocate in the container engineering org at AWS. I think there are a few misunderstandings here that I may be able to explain better. First Bottlerocket is not Amazon Linux 2, it is its own minimal operating system, with most components built from the ground up in Rust. This is totally different than the Amazon Linux 2 you may be familiar with (and most other operating systems for that matter). Bo…

Post by k__ » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 7:45 PM UTC

013a wrote: post #17

mnd999 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you saw CoreOS and thought “Let’s re:invent that wheel”?

You mean, the CoreOS that was end-of-lifed four months ago?

Post by azinman2 » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 7:48 PM UTC

NathanKP wrote: post #12

solatic wrote: post #3

As strong as the engineering behind Bottlerocket seems to be, I'm not entirely sure who they built it for, except as a foundational component for AWS's managed offerings. If you, as an AWS customer, decide to fully embrace AWS lock-in, then why would you run this yourself on an EC2 instance instead of running ECS or EKS? If you're trying to avoid AWS lock-in, why would you choose an OS that's locking you into AWS Sys…

Hi I'm a developer advocate in the container engineering org at AWS. I think there are a few misunderstandings here that I may be able to explain better. First Bottlerocket is not Amazon Linux 2, it is its own minimal operating system, with most components built from the ground up in Rust. This is totally different than the Amazon Linux 2 you may be familiar with (and most other operating systems for that matter). Bo…

Post by throwaway3neu94 » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 7:49 PM UTC

chromedev wrote: post #18

LeSaucy wrote: post #2

Look out Rancher!

Rancher has been around a long time and isn't cloud-specific. Until this distro can prove itself useful outside of the AWS ecosystem, then Rancher will still dominate.