It's buried a bit in the GitHub docs, but it looks like it runs two containerds. One is for Kubernetes. The other is for running administrative containers, including the API server for normal interaction with the host, a server that implements AWS's remote command protocol (enabled by default), and a container that runs sshd (disabled by default).
Packages are built with RPM but RPM isn't used at runtime. Instead, the system is image-based and reboots for updates.
Packages are built with RPM but RPM isn't used at runtime. Instead, the system is image-based and reboots for updates.