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Microsoft has acquired Kinvolk, a German open source company whose best known project is Flatcar Container Linux, a distribution designed for container workloads.
Kinvolk was founded in 2015 in Berlin and its first project was building a container runtime, called rkt, for Container Linux (formerly CoreOS), a lightweight Linux distribution. CoreOS Inc, the company behind Container Linux, was acquired by Red Hat in early 2018. Anxious for the future of Container Linux, Kinvolk founder and CEO Chris Kühl said Flatcar Linux is a friendly fork of CoreOS s Container Linux and as such, compatible with it.
The rationale for Flatcar Linux was uncertainty about the future of Container Linux after Red Hat s acquisition. At the time, Red Hat product manager Rob Szumski said Red Hat plans to continue Container Linux’s development and promised that it would remain free.
MSPs primed as customers move away from managing Kubernetes
MSPs primed as customers move away from managing Kubernetes
Availability of solid and varied managed Kubernetes options has seen more and more companies shy away from managing their own clusters. Here’s why Credit: Dreamstime
Managing Kubernetes is hard, and many organisations are starting to realise they can better focus on other, as-yet unsolved engineering problems if they hand off a big chunk of their container orchestration responsibilities to managed service providers (MSPs).
Each cloud provider offers more and more managed versions of these services such as the highly opinionated GKE Autopilot and the serverless EKS Fargate since first launching around 2018. There are other options, such as Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu, but the Big Three cloud vendors dominate this area.
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