AWS (Amazon Web Services), the cloud platform of the online sales giant is one of the most powerful, gaining ground and leading against others such as Google Cloud, IBM or Microsoft Azure itself. And this great service, like the competition, works thanks to Linux.
But is that in addition, AWS has now developed and released its own open source operating system for running containers on virtual machines and bare-metal (directly on the host). The project has called Bottlerocket and it is based on Linux, of course. A distro that comes to continue or replace the defunct CoreOS project (or Container Linux).
In addition, this system will be optimized, and it will be possible to try now on Amazon Machine Image for EC2 and by extension under Amazon EKS as well. However, it is still in a very early testing phase, so it will take a little while to see what this Bottlerocket is really capable of. Of course, when working with containers, it will support Docker images and images conforming to the Open Container Initiative image format.
The company has launched this project in cooperation with a number of partners quite important, such as Alcide, Armory, CrowdStrike, Datadog, New Relic, Sysdig, Tigera, Trend Micro and Waveworks. With these partners and the AWS infrastructure behind you, you are sure to be successful and bring exciting things to the already powerful Amazon cloud services.
If you are interested in the Bottlerocket project and not only want to try it from AWS, but you want to learn more and see the source codeYou should know that you have it at your disposal at this link, the one on the official site of this project hosted on GitHub.