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"Bottlerocket Linux for Container Platforms"

Bottlerocket Linux for Container Platforms is an authoritative guide to the emerging, purpose-built Linux distribution designed to run container workloads at scale. The book begins with a comprehensive exploration of Bottlerocket’s genesis in the evolving landscape of container-optimized operating systems, clearly situating its principles of immutability, minimalism, and security within the wider context of CoreOS, Flatcar, and Alpine. Readers are led through the architectural decisions that shape Bottlerocket’s reliability and robustness, including its constrained package selection, atomic update mechanisms, and streamlined integrations with orchestrators such as Kubernetes, AWS EKS, and ECS.

Zooming in on practical deployment and operations, the book delves into Bottlerocket's boot process, partitioning strategy, and immutable system architecture, giving readers an in-depth understanding of how to leverage its read-only root filesystem and atomic upgrade model for secure, scalable container infrastructure. Detailed chapters address the full configuration lifecycle, from TOML-based declarative settings and API-driven management to secure secrets handling and automated bootstrap workflows, all while emphasizing rigorous access control and policy enforcement.

Security stands at the core of Bottlerocket, and this book provides advanced coverage of attack surface reduction, SELinux policy enforcement, integrity verification, and compliance-ready logging. Readers gain actionable insights into network and storage integration tailored for contemporary cloud environments, as well as hands-on techniques for observability, troubleshooting, and high-performance engineering. Forward-looking discussions highlight Bottlerocket's future in the context of unikernels, microVMs, edge computing, and autonomous operations, making this book an essential resource for DevOps engineers, platform architects, and anyone driving the next wave of secure, efficient container platforms.

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Fecha de lanzamiento

Ebook: 24 de julio de 2025