It's conceptually very similar to CoreOS' Container Linux, so I might try that if I were looking at Kubernetes elsewhere and wanted a container-only OS.
If I am running an environment with multiple purposes - some container hosts, some regular machines - I'd err on the side of "who is my current vendor/what does my ops team support and know best".
Great thanks for the valuable infos.
We are running SLES12 and also a Suse Openstack Cloud on bare metal and only recently Suse has announced their container strategy (SLE MicroOS Distro) but we haven't had time to evaluate it yet.
At a recent DevConf I saw some interesting talks about immutable container hosts such Fedora Atomic. Seems that there is a lot of work done in this area.
The Container Optimised OS is what GKE uses on Google Cloud Platform https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/
It's conceptually very similar to CoreOS' Container Linux, so I might try that if I were looking at Kubernetes elsewhere and wanted a container-only OS.
If I am running an environment with multiple purposes - some container hosts, some regular machines - I'd err on the side of "who is my current vendor/what does my ops team support and know best".