Bottlerocket is an open source, container-optimized Linux distribution designed exclusively for running containers.
Single-Purpose Operating Systems are designed and optimized for specific tasks, making them good choices as container hosts.
Bottlerocket itself does not offer a package manager and is API-driven.
Bottlerocket facilitates fleet management by minimizing potential delta between the state of systems during pre-release testing, and the actual end state after applying updates on production systems.
Users can enjoy increased uptime, improved security and resource usage, lower management overhead, and faster node ready times with Bottlerocket.
Bottlerocket's roadmap is shaped primarily by direct feedback from the user base, and the development plan includes doubling down on built-in compliance capabilities, supporting new features on Amazon EC2 instances across all AWS Regions, making the ramp-up experience easier for users, and continuing to improve node ready times.
The Bottlerocket team recently introduced Bottlerocket Out-of-Tree Builds (OOTB) support, which is a mechanism for creating custom Bottlerocket variants that live within their own git trees.
The Bottlerocket team aims to bring up the network and local storage in parallel and plans to improve node launch times for its next minor release.
Bottlerocket is an open-source project and welcomes bug reports, pull requests, and feedback from the user community.
If you are new to Bottlerocket, you can refer to the Get Started section on the website to learn more about using it as a container host OS.