Has anyone had issues using Bottlerocket AMIs on R...
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shy-restaurant-94821
04/23/2025, 4:11 PMHas anyone had issues using Bottlerocket AMIs on Rancher managed EKS instances? Are there any considerations when using Bottlerocket? Per this doc from Amazon, it looks like AL2 optimized AMIs won’t be available later this year, and that’s what Rancher seems to default to currently: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-optimized-ami.html
shy-restaurant-94821
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creamy-pencil-82913
04/23/2025, 4:26 PMBottlerocket is not a supported distro. I suspect it is too stripped down to work with the Rancher provisioning tools.
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shy-restaurant-94821
04/23/2025, 4:27 PMAre there plans to support it in the future given AL2 optimized EKS AMIs are being deprecated?
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creamy-pencil-82913
04/23/2025, 4:28 PMI would imagine that at least AL2023 will be added. You can keep an eye on the support matrix: https://www.suse.com/suse-rancher/support-matrix/all-supported-versions/rancher-v2-10-4/
creamy-pencil-82913
04/23/2025, 4:28 PMNote that the AL2 EOL is 13 months out, despite Amazon stopping production of EKS AMIs earlier than that.
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shy-restaurant-94821
04/23/2025, 4:29 PMGot it, thank you
shy-restaurant-94821
04/23/2025, 4:32 PM@creamy-pencil-82913 one last question.. Is Bottlerocket not supported for RKE2, EKS or both?
shy-restaurant-94821
04/23/2025, 4:33 PMI ask, because my understanding is that EKS manages the underlying nodegroup instances; whereas Rancher is fully managing RKE2 node pools isntances.
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creamy-pencil-82913
04/23/2025, 4:45 PMDefinitely not supported for RKE2. I don’t know about EKS. I have poked some folks internally to see if there’s any info I can share about our roadmap for the AL2 EOL.
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shy-restaurant-94821
04/23/2025, 4:47 PMThank you!
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creamy-pencil-82913
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shy-restaurant-94821
04/24/2025, 2:17 PMIt’d be great to get Bottlerocket support for the EKS operator as this is coming down the pipe.
shy-restaurant-94821
04/24/2025, 4:35 PMI pulled the source for the EKS-operator from Github, and I think I added BottleRocket support. Is there anyone I can work with to contribute my changes?
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