Rancheros Release: The lightest open source container Linux operating system

Rancheros official version is now fully released! Right now, a minimalist Linux distribution based on a container. Rancheros screens aside any unnecessary libraries and services, so Rancheros occupies One-third of the other container operating system. The simplified container environment reduces the start-up time of the container, reducing the number of components resulting in a significant increase in efficiency and safety.

"At Brcloud Services, we are committed to providing the best solution to meet the needs of our customers," said Helvio Lima, chief executive of Brcloud Services. Rancheros embodies the proper face of modern infrastructure. We are pleased to integrate the Rancheros container operating system into our portfolio of products. ”

Rancheros enables users to easily run containers in development, testing, and production. By centralizing system services and managing with Docker, this operating system is secure and reliable, enabling users to easily manage the container-ready environment. Rancheros system services are defined by Docker compose and are automatically configured with Cloud-init to reduce administrative burden. Unwanted libraries and services will be eliminated, which will significantly reduce the footprint of the operating system and minimize the hassle of updating, repairing, and maintaining the container host operating system. Containers running in Rancheros are started in seconds, making the operating system an ideal choice for running microservices or Autoscale. The team can even easily manage all the products on the Rancheros with the rancher container management platform.

The main features of Rancheros include:

• Minimalist operating system: sift through unnecessary libraries and services

• automatic configuration: simplifies OS configuration by using Cloud-init to resolve cloud profiles from multiple data sources

• Simple setup: run the service inside the container using the Docker compose service file, making setup as simple as running a Docker container

• reduced footprint: reduces resource requirements and consumes one-third of other container operating systems on the market

• extensive platform support: support for Amazon EC2, bare metal, Digital ocean,docker machine,gce,kvm,openstack,packet,vagrant, VMware (experimental) and VirtualBox

Liang Sheng, co-founder and CEO of Rancher Labs, said: "Rancheros is a minimalist Linux distribution that is ideal for running Docker containers. By running Docker directly on the kernel and providing the Linux service as a container, Rancheros provides the functionality needed to build a containerized application environment. ”

About Rancher Labs

Rancher Labs is dedicated to providing innovative open source software for businesses that want to accelerate software development and improve IT operations with container technology. With strong infrastructure service management and container orchestration capabilities, as well as commercial support distributions for Kubernetes, Mesos and Docker Swarm, Rancher Labs ' flagship product--rancher container management platform, Allows users to easily manage every aspect of a production run container on any infrastructure. Rancheros is a simplified Linux distribution that was born to run the container.

Original source: Rancher Labs

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Rancheros Release: The lightest open source container Linux operating system