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Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers

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RancherOS

The smallest, easiest way to run Docker in production at scale. Everything in RancherOS is a container managed by Docker. This includes system services such as udev and rsyslog. RancherOS includes only the bare minimum amount of software needed to run Docker. This keeps the binary download of RancherOS very small. Everything else can be pulled in dynamically through Docker.

How this works

Everything in RancherOS is a Docker container. We accomplish this by launching two instances of Docker. One is what we call the system Docker which runs as the first process. System Docker then launches a container that runs the user Docker. The user Docker is then the instance that gets primarily used to create containers. We created this separation because it seemed logical and also it would really be bad if somebody did docker rm -f $(docker ps -qa) and deleted the entire OS.

How it works

Latest Release

v1.0.1 - Docker 17.03.1-ce - Linux 4.9.24

ISO

Additional Downloads

Latest Links

v1.0.1 Links

v1.0.0 Links - updates coming soon

Note: you can use http instead of https in the above URLs, e.g. for iPXE.

Amazon

SSH keys are added to the rancher user, so you must log in using the rancher user.

HVM

Region Type AMI
ap-south-1 HVM ami-9b4e3cf4
eu-west-2 HVM ami-d8eafebc
eu-west-1 HVM ami-75cbcb13
ap-northeast-2 HVM ami-797cae17
ap-northeast-1 HVM ami-e499b383
sa-east-1 HVM ami-f4cca198
ca-central-1 HVM ami-59b60a3d
ap-southeast-1 HVM ami-be853edd
ap-southeast-2 HVM ami-e2dcd481
eu-central-1 HVM ami-ef0bd780
us-east-1 HVM ami-5c5a3f4a
us-east-2 HVM ami-902304f5
us-west-1 HVM ami-4a73542a
us-west-2 HVM ami-7caa341c

Google Compute Engine

We are providing a disk image that users can download and import for use in Google Compute Engine. The image can be obtained from the release artifacts for RancherOS.

Download Image

Please follow the directions at our docs to launch in GCE.

Documentation for RancherOS

Please refer to our RancherOS Documentation website to read all about RancherOS. It has detailed information on how RancherOS works, getting-started and other details.

Support, Discussion, and Community

If you need any help with RancherOS or Rancher, please join us at either our Rancher forums or #rancher IRC channel where most of our team hangs out at.

For security issues, please email security@rancher.com instead of posting a public issue in GitHub. You may (but are not required to) use the GPG key located on Keybase.

Please submit any RancherOS bugs, issues, and feature requests to rancher/os.

Please submit any Rancher bugs, issues, and feature requests to rancher/rancher.

#License Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Rancher Labs, Inc.

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