Running LinuxKit on AWS Platform Made Easy

Soon after DockerCon 2017, I wrote a blog post on how to get started with LinuxKit for Google Cloud Platform. Since then I have been closely keeping eye on the latest features, enablements & releases of LinuxKit. Under this blog post, I bring up a simplified approach to get LinuxKit OS instance running on top of Amazon Web Services(AWS) Platform.

Here we go..

Steps:

1. Install AWS CLI on macOS(Using Homebrew)
2. Installing LinuxKit & Moby Tool(Using Homebrew)
3. Configuring AWS S3 bucket
4. Building a RAW image with Moby tool
5. Configuring VM Import Service Role
6. Upload the aws.raw Image to remote AWS S3 bucket using LinuxKit
7. Run the LinuxKit OS as EC2 Instance 

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