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Comment by jrhill85 | Hacker News Reader

The subject says "for hosting containers" but the README says "for AWS EKS Kubernetes" which sounds a little less general...

How tied in to the AWS model is this? Are the places that would need to be expanded known?

Also at least at a glance, this is a neat use of real-world Rust

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> This is a reflection of what we've learned building operating systems and services at Amazon.

I don't know how actually tied in it is, but it's not totally surprising to me that it's built for AWS infrastructure.

That being said:

> To start, we're focusing on use of Bottlerocket as a host OS in AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters. We’re excited to get early feedback and to continue working on more use cases! > > Bottlerocket is architected such that different cloud environments and container orchestrators can be supported in the future.

Very exciting!

While our first variant is focused on Kubernetes and EKS, we have designed Bottlerocket in a way that new variants can be built that work with other orchestrators, or even without one (we have ECS support on our roadmap already). Also, we really enjoyed working in Rust for big chunks of this!

> Also, we really enjoyed working in Rust for big chunks of this!

Glad to hear it! Please reach out if you need anything :)

>"While our first variant is focused on Kubernetes and EKS..."

So is the idea that people create a Bottlerocket AMI and use that as their EKS worker node images? Is that correct?

Correct! Or you can spin up one of the AMIs we've already built. You can find current AMIs via public SSM parameters: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

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