# Container-Optimized OS from Google documentation

[Read product documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/features-and-benefits)
Container-Optimized OS is an operating system image for your [Compute Engine](https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute) 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](https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os) project.

## Documentation resources

Find quickstarts and guides, review key references, and get help with common issues.

### Concept guides

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  [Container-Optimized OS overview](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/features-and-benefits)

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  [Security overview](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/security)

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  [Disks and filesystem overview](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/disks-and-filesystem)

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  [Supported filesystems](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/supported-filesystems)

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  [Versioning scheme](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/versioning)

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  [Automatic updates](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/auto-update)

### How-to guides

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  [Creating and configuring instances](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/create-configure-instance)

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  [Debugging node issues using toolbox](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/toolbox)

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  [Running containers on instances](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/run-container-instance)

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  [Securing containers with AppArmor](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/secure-apparmor)

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  [Monitoring system health with Node Problem Detector](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/monitoring)

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  [Configuring the host firewall](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/firewall)

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  [Running instances with GPU accelerators](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/run-gpus)

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  [Building Container-Optimized OS from source](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/building-from-open-source)

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  [Collecting debugging information using sosreport](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/sosreport)

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  [Using Arm-based Container-Optimized OS images](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/arm)

### Resources

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  [Release notes](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/release-notes)

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  [Support policy](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/resources/support-policy)

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  [Versioning scheme](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/versioning)

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  [Automatic updates](https://docs.cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concepts/auto-update)

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