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Uehreka 3y ago
> 2. Draw the rest of the owl! Is this available as an AMI I can use when launching an EC2 instance? If so, how do I specify which container or containers it should run? Do I paste a docker-compose.yaml file into the User Data field in the EC2 launch wizard? Do I send configuration to a certain reserved port with a specially authed HTTP POST? About the only thing I know atm is that I can’t use ssh until a container is deployed.
- rezonant 3y ago
  Yes, its listed in the Community AMIs section. It's more common to use this alongside Elastic Kubernetes or other similar AWS services though, where you can opt to use Bottlerocket at the host during configuration. https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket/faqs/#Using_Bottlerocket https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket/faqs/#Using_Bottlerocket
  - Uehreka 3y ago
    OK cool, thanks for that information, but I do wish that someone would explain the mechanism for deploying this OS. Like, if it’s part of an ECS/EKS scheme I’ll tolerate some magic, but at the end of the day I’m a curious person and I’d like to know the mechanics behind how my software is getting deployed. In general if I personally can’t deploy something to EC2 I feel weird about trusting higher level abstractions to do something I don’t know how to.
    - rezonant 3y ago
      Well, the link I provided references the Bottlerocket docs which explains the control container and the admin container and also how you can configure Bottlerocket via the User Data field when launching it as an AMI. All the information appears to be in the docs https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop/README.md#using-user-data https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...
      - Uehreka 3y ago
        Thank you! I’ll check this out, I’d like to try integrating bottlerocket into some of my Terraform workflows.

> 2. Draw the rest of the owl! Is this available as an AMI I can use when launching an EC2 instance? If so, how do I specify which container or containers it should run? Do I paste a docker-compose.yaml file into the User Data field in the EC2 launch wizard? Do I send configuration to a certain reserved port with a specially authed HTTP POST? About the only thing I know atm is that I can’t use ssh until a container is deployed.

rezonant 3y ago
Yes, its listed in the Community AMIs section. It's more common to use this alongside Elastic Kubernetes or other similar AWS services though, where you can opt to use Bottlerocket at the host during configuration. https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket/faqs/#Using_Bottlerocket https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket/faqs/#Using_Bottlerocket
- Uehreka 3y ago
  OK cool, thanks for that information, but I do wish that someone would explain the mechanism for deploying this OS. Like, if it’s part of an ECS/EKS scheme I’ll tolerate some magic, but at the end of the day I’m a curious person and I’d like to know the mechanics behind how my software is getting deployed. In general if I personally can’t deploy something to EC2 I feel weird about trusting higher level abstractions to do something I don’t know how to.
  - rezonant 3y ago
    Well, the link I provided references the Bottlerocket docs which explains the control container and the admin container and also how you can configure Bottlerocket via the User Data field when launching it as an AMI. All the information appears to be in the docs https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop/README.md#using-user-data https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...
    - Uehreka 3y ago
      Thank you! I’ll check this out, I’d like to try integrating bottlerocket into some of my Terraform workflows.