Announcing RancherOS: A minimalist distro designed explicitly to run Docker
Today I would like to announce a new open source project called RancherOS – the smallest, easiest way to run Docker in production and at scale. RancherOS is the first operating system to fully embrace...
View ArticleDarren Shepherd demonstrates RancherOS at San Francisco Docker Meetup
Thanks to Docker, Orange and Blumberg Capital for hosting a great meetup last night in San Francisco. Darren Shepherd, Chief Architect of Rancher Labs introduced RancherOS for the first time, and...
View ArticleRancherOS 0.2 introduces support for upgrades
This week we released RancherOS 0.2, which introduces support for upgrades. RancherOS is a tiny Linux distribution designed specifically to run Docker, using containers to isolate user and system...
View ArticleArchitecture of Rancher’s Docker-machine Integration
As you may have seen, Rancher recently announced our integration with docker-machine. This integration will allow users to spin up Rancher compute nodes across multiple cloud providers right from the...
View ArticleRunning Nagios as a System Service on RancherOS
Nagios is a fantastic monitoring tool, and I wanted to see if I could get the agent to run as a system container on RancherOS, in order to monitor the host and any Docker containers running on it. It...
View ArticleGetting Started with RancherOS
Hi, I’m Sidhartha Mani, one of the engineers at Rancher, and I wanted to provide a quick overview for how to get started using RancherOS. RancherOS is a micro-linux distribution that has the aim of...
View ArticleRancherOS 0.4 makes major improvements to user experience and system performance
Today we are excited to announce a major release of RancherOS. The first release of RancherOS was announced just six months ago. At that time, powering an entire operating system with Docker was a...
View ArticleWhat’s New in RancherOS v0.5.0
We’ve recently released v0.5.0 of RancherOS, the latest major release since v0.4.0. Since then, we’ve moved RancherOS out of an alpha state and made many changes to improve both stability and user...
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