October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
By default, nodes in your Kubernetes Engine use Google's Container-Optimized OS. It is a locked-down version of Chromium OS, which has the purpose of running containerized applications. Images are maintained and updated by Google. Updates are downloaded automatically in the background. As it is stripped of unnecessary features, the attack surface is smaller than in the case of other Linux distributions.
Note that this OS is not good for running non-containerized applications or when you need enterprise support from a Linux provider. Use Container-Optimized OS for nodes unless you have a very good reason to use another Linux distribution.
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