# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / March 29, 2023

Agenda:
- CIS Benchmark Agent
- Proposal: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/pull/2881
- Open Forum

Zoom to join meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/94806207506?pwd=RFN6QjVUcndoSjRKa1haSTZYdHMwQT09

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / March 15, 2023

Agenda:
- Running PostGres on Bottlerocket with StackGres (Álvaro from OnGres)
- Open Forum

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / March 1, 2023

Agenda:
- Discussion: Out of tree builds / settings extensions ([#2834](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/pull/2834))
- `aws-iam-authenticator` for baremetal variant ([GitHub discussion](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/discussions/2809))
- Need a better understanding of the security implications of this to form an opinion on whether this is a good idea. AWS dev team will reach out to some folks internally.
- Open forum

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Feb 15, 2023

Agenda:
- Add your own
- Announcement: brupop release :rocket:
- Docs and how you can help
- Open forum
- Looking for feedback on [logging and metrics ideas](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/2747)

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Feb 1, 2023

Agenda:

- Brupop with Helm
- Bottlerocket 1.12
- State of the world: wicked -> systemd-networkd
- Introduction to Out-of-Tree Variants
- Open forum

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Jan 18, 2023

Agenda:

- What's new in 1.12.0
- Open forum
- Overview of cgroup v2 support in admin container
- Bottlerocket currently uses v1, supported by k8s

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Dec 14, 2022

Agenda:
- Networking Bonding and VLAN support
- TestSys Update
- Note on issue triage
- Upcoming releases & roadmap

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Nov 16, 2022

Agenda:
- Hands-on with host containers

Events:
- Re:invent (Las Vegas, Nov 28 - Dec 2)
- Why a container optimized OS? (and what does that even mean)- Dec 2 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Open Source Zone:
- Nov 28: 9am-1pm
- Nov 29: 9am-11am
- Nov 30: 9am-1pm
- Dec 1: 9am-11am

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Nov 2, 2022

Agenda:
- KubeCon Recap (5 Minutes)
- Brupop 1.0 - Quick overview & Demo (John)
- Using `test.toml` to configure Bottlerocket testing

Events:
- Re:invent (Las Vegas, Nov 28 - Dec 2) - Why a container optimized OS? (and what does that even mean)- **SOLD OUT** Second session being added :)

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Oct 19, 2022

Agenda:
- Kubernetes image credential provider demo (Sean M. - 15 min)
- [PR for adding feature](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/pull/2377)
- [Kubernetes Image Credential Provider docs](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/kubelet-credential-provider/kubelet-credential-provider/)
- Releases

Events:
- KubeCon North America (Detroit, Oct 27 10:30am) - Getting going with bare metal Bottlerocket with EKS Anywhere
- Re:invent (Las Vegas, Nov 28 - Dec 2) - Why a container optimized OS? (and what does that even mean)- **SOLD OUT** Second session being added :)

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Oct 5, 2022

Agenda:
- Overview / walkthrough: Metal network config and static addressing (Presentation: Zac M. - 15 min)

Events:
- [Kubehuddle](https://kubehuddle.com/) October 3rd and 4th, 2022
live streaming via youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/Rawkode channel
- KubeCon North America (Detroit, Oct 27 10:30am) - Getting going with bare metal Bottlerocket with EKS Anywhere
- Re:invent (Las Vegas, Nov 28 - Dec 2) - Why a container optimized OS? (and what does that even mean)
- Kubernetes community day MENA 2022 - online 14:00 - 19:00 Dubai time UTC+4,Friday 14th Oct. will update URL later, we will need your help for one session around bottlerocket

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Sept 21, 2022

Agenda:
- Towards a Bottlerocket Website (Presentation: Kyle D - 12 minutes)
- Roadmap Review: (Kyle D - 5 min)
- Q&A (Everyone! Remainder time)

Events:
- KubeCon North America (Detroit, Oct 27 10:30am) - Getting going with bare metal Bottlerocket with EKS Anywhere
- Re:invent (Las Vegas, Nov 28 - Dec 2) - Why a container optimized OS? (and what does that even mean)

*Feel free to add your agenda items, please start an agenda type ('News', 'Presentation', 'Announcement', 'Feedback Requested', etc.) and end with your name. Agenda items added first will have priority*

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Sept 7, 2022

Agenda:
- Presentation: Overview of Bottlerocket Update Operator (Presentation: Tianhao G - 10 mins)
- Metal variants: State of the world (Presentation: Zac M - 5 Mins)
- Surgical Kernel Config Changes (Presentation: Markus B - 5 min)
- `buildsys` Go module vendoring support (Presentation: John M - 5 min)
- Roadmap Review: (Kyle D - 5 min)
- Q&A (Everyone! Remainder time)

Events:
- Open Source Summit EU (Dublin, Sept 13-16) - Meet us at the AWS Open Source booth
- KubeCon NA (Detroit, Oct) (TBD)
- Re:invent (Las Vegas, Nov 28 - Dec 2) - _Why a container optimized
OS? (and what does that even mean)_

Who attended [add your name here if you want!]? (22 in attendance total)
- Kyle Davis (AWS)
- Austin Vazquez (AWS)
- Markus Boehme (AWS)
- Tianhao Geng (AWS)
- Sean McGinnis (AWS)

*Feel free to add your agenda items, please start an agenda type ('News', 'Presentation', 'Announcement', 'Feedback Requested', etc.) and end with your name. Agenda items added first will have priority*

# Bottlerocket Community Meeting / Aug 24, 2022

Agenda:
- Welcome (Kyle D - 3 min)
- Announcement: Bottlerocket 1.9.1 (Kyle D - 2 min)
- [GitHub release notes found here](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/releases/tag/v1.9.1)
- News: Upcoming Meeting Schedule (Kyle D - 3 min)
- Let us know when (date/times/etc) you'd like to hold these meetings [in this GitHub discussion](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/discussions/2372)
- Announcement: CIS benchmark published (Ben C - 1 min)
- [CIS benchmark found here](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/bottlerocket) - just about 100 pages!
- Feedback Requested: applying and auditing for the CIS benchmark (Ben C - 7 mins)
- Give us your feedback [in this GitHub issue](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/1297)
- Looking for thoughts/feedback on how to automate CI/CD the benchmarking of the CIS bench
- `localtoast` (a scanner for running security-related configuration checks) might be a good thing to look at: https://github.com/google/localtoast
- Feedback Requested: config containers proposal, limitations (Ben C - 7 min)
- 2 problems:
- Arbitrary changes to config might make upgrades less reliable (clashes of future releases)
- Reconciliation of the settings API: bottlerocket should be able to re-write config files at any time (your changes aren't "sticky")
- Give us your feedback [in this GitHub issue](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/2343) for "config containers" proposed design
- Which files (just the kubelet config?) need to be changed? Where should the config container fail?
- Presentation: Building Bottlerocket (Sean M - 10 min)
- A few docs to get you started!
- Root readme: [README.md](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#readme) (note the variant section and which variant you'll be targeting)
- How to build: [BUILDING.md](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop/BUILDING.md)
- Check out the [PUBLISHING.md](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop/PUBLISHING.md) and the other PUBLISHING-* docs to learn about deploying your build
- Presentation: Testsys demo and current status (Ethan P - 10 min)
- Check out [the code repository here!](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket-test-system)
- Bottlerocket-test-system (or simply called testsys) is a testing framework for bottlerocket that uses kubernetes paradigms (and resources) to manage and test bottlerocket end to end
- Check out [the developer guide here](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket-test-system/blob/develop/docs/DEVELOPER.md) (with useful definitions and demo info)
- Check out [the testing guide here](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop/TESTING.md) for information related to testing Bottlerocket
- Roadmap Review: (Kyle D - 5 min)
- Moving to a singular roadmap! Huzzah! It can be found [in the `bottlerocket-os` GitHub org projects](https://github.com/orgs/bottlerocket-os/projects/18/views/2)
- **Q&A** (Everyone! Remainder time)
- questions in the zoom chat for now!

Unanswered Questions from the meeting:
- Why is this not recorded? Kyle: Bottlerocket will need to get a YouTube channel first, but it's on our list!
- Why wasn't live transcript turned on? Kyle: Not sure about this. Will investigate!

Events:
- Open Source Summit EU (Dublin, Sept 13-16)
- Meet us at the AWS Open Source booth
- KubeCon NA (Detroit, Oct)
- TBD

Who attended [add your name here if you want!]?
- Kyle D (AWS)
- John McBride (AWS)
- Austin Vazquez (AWS)
- Mahdi Chaker (AWS)
- Kavitha Daula (AWS)
- Ethan Pullen (AWS)
- Sean McGinnis (AWS)
- Zac Mrowicki(AWS)
- Justin Haynes
- Arnaldo Garcia (AWS)
- Tianhao Geng (AWS)
- Shikha Vyaghra

[Meeting attendance total: 32, several organizations represented]

Next time:
- Presentation: Overview of Bottlerocket Update Operator (Tianhao G - 10 mins)

*Feel free to add your agenda items, please start an agenda type ('News', 'Presentation', 'Announcement', 'Feedback Requested', etc.) and end with your name. Agenda items added first will have priority*