CNCF’s recently-established special purpose operating system working group focuses on the operations, best practices, and guidance for running cloud native workloads on operating systems including, but not limited to, containers, across orchestrators such as Kubernetes and other cloud-native projects.
Our panel features representatives of popular, highly specialized Linux distributions. We will outline the specifics and the goals of popular specialized operating systems such as base OS immutability, atomic upgrades / rollbacks, and securing deployments / workloads. We will discuss what specialized OSes can provide to improve development and operation of cloud-native workloads, and will outline operational challenges that result from specializations when adopting and operating these OSes.