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Getting Started with CoreOS

Getting Started with CoreOS

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Author(s)

By Justin Ellingwood and Brennen Bearnes

Introduction

CoreOS is a powerful Linux distribution built to make large, scalable deployments on varied infrastructure simple to manage. Based on a build of Chrome OS, CoreOS maintains a lightweight host system and uses Docker containers for all applications. In this series, we will introduce you to the basics of CoreOS, teach you how to set up a CoreOS cluster, and get you started with using docker containers with CoreOS.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

How To Use Fleet and Fleetctl to Manage your CoreOS Cluster

September 13, 2014
11 min read

Tutorial

How To Use Etcdctl and Etcd, CoreOS's Distributed Key-Value Store

September 15, 2014
8 min read

Tutorial

How to Create Flexible Services for a CoreOS Cluster with Fleet Unit Files

September 13, 2014
19 min read

Tutorial

How To Use Confd and Etcd to Dynamically Reconfigure Services in CoreOS

September 17, 2014
22 min read

Tutorial

How To Troubleshoot Common Issues with your CoreOS Servers

September 19, 2014
19 min read

Tutorial

How To Secure Your CoreOS Cluster with TLS/SSL and Firewall Rules

December 8, 2015
16 min read

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