Bottlerocket
Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
Why Bottlerocket?
Bottlerocket is a Linux-based open-source operating system that is purpose-built by Amazon Web Services for running containers. Bottlerocket includes only the essential software required to run containers, and ensures that the underlying software is always secure. With Bottlerocket, customers can reduce maintenance overhead and automate their workflows by applying configuration settings consistently as nodes are upgraded or replaced.
Bottlerocket is now generally available at no cost as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Benefits
Open allUpdates to Bottlerocket are applied in a single step and can be rolled back if necessary, resulting in lower error rates and improved uptime for container applications. By contrast, general-purpose operating systems are typically updated package-by-package.
Bottlerocket’s open development model enables customers and partners to produce custom builds, for example, builds that support their preferred orchestrators. Changes in these custom builds can be contributed back for inclusion to the Bottlerocket open source project.
Updates to Bottlerocket can be automated using container orchestration services such as Amazon EKS, which lowers management overhead and reduces operational costs.
Bottlerocket includes only the essential software to run containers, which improves resource utilization and reduces the attack surface compared to general-purpose operating systems
AWS provided builds of Bottlerocket are optimized to run on Amazon EC2 and include support for the latest Amazon EC2 instance capabilities. They also have built-in integrations with AWS services for container orchestration, registries, and observability.
Amazon Web Services’s Bottlerocket has been certified by the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) to ship secure as hardened to CIS Bottlerocket Benchmark v1.0.0. Organizations that leverage Bottlerocket can now be assured that it will successfully run on a CIS hardened environment.
What's new
OODA Health is transforming the administrative experience in healthcare by enabling collaborative, real-time interactions between providers, members and payers.
OODA Health
Veeva Systems is the leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. We run a variety of containerized microservices on a development cluster built entirely on Bottlerocket nodes. We adopted Bottlerocket because we wanted a streamlined container OS with better resource efficiency, enhanced security, and reduced management overhead. The transition to Bottlerocket was a seamless experience and it has largely been a drop-in replacement for our other EKS nodes.
Veeva Systems
Lee Slezak
Sumo Logic is an AWS-native SaaS analytics platform that helps companies ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. On a continuous mission to refine the efficiency, reliability, and security of its operations, Sumo Logic adopted Bottlerocket as the standard image for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) nodes, resulting in a lower management overhead and improved compliance posture.
Sumo Logic
Lee Slezak
GetYourGuide is the booking platform for unforgettable travel experiences. Travelers use GetYourGuide to discover the best things to do at a destination — including walking tours by top local experts, local culinary tours, cooking and craft classes, skip-the-line tickets to the world’s most iconic attractions, bucket-list experiences and niche offerings you won’t usually find anywhere else. We chose Bottlerocket as the operating system for our Kubernetes clusters because it reduces node maintenance costs for us and improves our application security. Bottlerocket integrates seamlessly with EKS and the declarative approach to configure instances at startup ensures our node groups run with high reliability and consistency.
GetYourGuide
Lee Slezak
Swisscom is Switzerland's leading telecoms company and one of its leading IT companies. The vast majority of the workloads we run in the cloud are containerized and we have been promoting a Bottlerocket-first strategy for our Kubernetes clusters since the early stages of our AWS journey.
Swisscom
Lee Slezak