Amazon EKS optimized Bottlerocket AMIs

You can deploy to Amazon EC2 instances with x86 or Arm processors, but not to instances that have Inferentia chips.

There is no Amazon CloudFormation template to deploy nodes with.

Bottlerocket images don't come with an SSH server or a shell. You can use out-of-band access methods to allow SSH enabling the admin container and to pass some bootstrapping configuration steps with user data. For more information, see these sections in the bottlerocket README.md on GitHub:

By default, Bottlerocket has a control container that's enabled. This container runs the Amazon Systems Manager agent that you can use to run commands or start shell sessions on Amazon EC2 Bottlerocket instances. For more information, see Setting up Session Manager in the Amazon Systems Manager User Guide.

Bottlerocket also has an admin container that's enabled if an SSH key is given when creating the node group. We recommend using the admin container only for development and testing scenarios. We don't recommend using it for production environments.