<![endif] Rancher Labs Announces Beta Availability of Rancher Read More x Skip to content Rancher RancherOS Downloads Rancher RancherOS Docs Rancher RancherOS About Team Contact Us Events Careers Investors Forums Blog #site-navigation Purpose-built for containers, Rancher makes running Docker anywhere a dream Get started to run Docker When we started the RancherOS project, we set out to build a minimalist Linux distribution that was perfect for running Docker containers. We wanted to run Docker directly on top of the Linux Kernel, and have all user-space Linux services be distributed as Docker containers. By doing this, there would be no need to use a separate software package distribution mechanism for RancherOS itself. In RancherOS, the Docker daemon runs as PID 1, the first process the kernel starts when it boots. We cal...