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Like everything, it's context dependent, but wowzers my life has improved so much since I got on board the Flatcar or Bottlerocket train of immutable OS. Flatca
by mdaniel 2y ago
Like everything, it's context dependent, but wowzers my life has improved so much since I got on board the Flatcar or Bottlerocket train of immutable OS. Flatcar (née CoreOS) does ship with docker but is still mostly a general purpose OS but Bottlerocket is about as "cloud native" as it comes, shipping with kubelet and even the host processes run in containers. For my purposes (being a k8s fanboy) that's just perfect since it's one less bootstrapping step I need to take on my own
Both are Apache 2 and the Flatcar folks are excellent to work with
https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar#readme https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar#readme
https://github.com/bottlerocket-os#bottlerocket https://github.com/bottlerocket-os#bottlerocket
- thebeardisred 2y agoAs usual, I'm stoked to see I'm not the only one using Flatcar. :)
- mattbillenstein 2y agoSure, but again, complexity - stuff people have to learn/maintain/upgrade, etc. ymmv Running and configuring VMs isn't hard to do correctly, it just takes discipline to never "hack it in the moment" - or if you do, can that change in your config system.
- mdaniel 2y ago> it just takes discipline to never "hack it in the moment" - or if you do, can that change in your config system. Yup, and I'm glad your experience has been different from mine but mine has been that tired and stressed people are anything but disciplined, so nipping a few "I'll just apt-get ..." in the bud goes a long way. So does Reverse Uptime (or its friend, Chaos Engineering)