Container-Optimized OS from Google documentation
Container-Optimized OS is an operating system image for your Compute Engine
VMs that is optimized for running Docker containers. With Container-Optimized OS, you can
bring up your Docker containers on Google Cloud Platform quickly, efficiently, and securely.
Container-Optimized OS is maintained by Google and is based on the open source Chromium OS
project. Learn more
.
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Last updated 2025-08-29 UTC.
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