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Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by da_chicken »

wyldfire wrote: post #5

It seems like early 2018 is rife with acquisitions and mergers. Was the recent tax law a factor? Seems like these acquisitions take so much time that it couldn't have been dependent on that. So why all this activity?

Wages didn't really recover after 2008. The larger the company, the more flush with cash they've become. Nearly every major industry has been going through mergers. Dow Chemical and Dupont. Bayer and Monsanto. Disney and Fox. Charter and Time Warner.

Given the fact that Trump and the GoP are in control right now, the FTC's position is weaker than it's ever been. We'll need anti-trust legislators in 10 to 15 years or disparity in the US will be at an all-time high.

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by dgellow »

numbsafari wrote: post #30
grey-area wrote: post #23

Not great news if you use container Linux: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos Container Linux and its investment in container-optimized Linux and automated “over the air” software updates are complementary to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and Red Hat’s integrated container runtime and platform management capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s content, the foun…

Super disappointed in this part of it. Is anyone else aware/familiar with a decent immutable lightweight Linux distro like Container Linux?

RancherOS: http://rancher.com/rancher-os/

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by merb »

puzzle wrote: post #26
grey-area wrote: post #23

Not great news if you use container Linux: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos Container Linux and its investment in container-optimized Linux and automated “over the air” software updates are complementary to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and Red Hat’s integrated container runtime and platform management capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s content, the foun…

Which delivery mechanisms? The ContainerLinux boot image updater comes from Chrome and ChromeOS (Omaha). They must be talking about the higher-level partitioning of a cluster into groups with separate policies, etc. Congratulations to the CoreOS team, by the way.

tectonic, ignition, matchbox?

Also CoreUpdate is based on Chrome and ChromeOS but it's the only os that integrated it nicely. Running CoreOS is way simpler to manage than most other distro's because of that fact.

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by rzzzt »

merb wrote: post #43
puzzle wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which delivery mechanisms? The ContainerLinux boot image updater comes from Chrome and ChromeOS (Omaha). They must be talking about the higher-level partitioning of a cluster into groups with separate policies, etc. Congratulations to the CoreOS team, by the way.

tectonic, ignition, matchbox? Also CoreUpdate is based on Chrome and ChromeOS but it's the only os that integrated it nicely. Running CoreOS is way simpler to manage than most other distro's because of that fact.

Atomic uses rpm-ostree, which looks similar to Omaha from a client perspective (update, roll back to previous version): http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/os-updates/

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by merb »

rzzzt wrote: post #44
merb wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tectonic, ignition, matchbox? Also CoreUpdate is based on Chrome and ChromeOS but it's the only os that integrated it nicely. Running CoreOS is way simpler to manage than most other distro's because of that fact.

Atomic uses rpm-ostree, which looks similar to Omaha from a client perspective (update, roll back to previous version): http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/os-updates/

is there an alternative to locksmith? the "automatic" update (https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/update-strategies.html) and/or https://github.com/coreos/container-linux-update-operator?

basically on coreos I don't need to run "rpm-ostree" to have an updated system. it is actually updated automatically.

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by fapjacks »

michaelsbradley wrote: post #15

I suspect an announcement re: Docker's acquisition by a major tech player may follow closely on the heels of this news.

I don't think so. Docker Inc seems to want to take this as far as they can on their own, and I haven't seen anything to indicate a deviation from their stated and implied goal of becoming an entrenched brand of enterprise platform. I don't think they've done much in the way of positioning themselves to be bought, though I'm sure some of the bigger players would like to buy them. I'm interested in this kind of discussion, though, and would like to hear all about why I may not be right.

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by puzzle »

merb wrote: post #43
puzzle wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which delivery mechanisms? The ContainerLinux boot image updater comes from Chrome and ChromeOS (Omaha). They must be talking about the higher-level partitioning of a cluster into groups with separate policies, etc. Congratulations to the CoreOS team, by the way.

tectonic, ignition, matchbox? Also CoreUpdate is based on Chrome and ChromeOS but it's the only os that integrated it nicely. Running CoreOS is way simpler to manage than most other distro's because of that fact.

I was thinking of locksmith. It's nice, as you say, to be able to have no more than N nodes per pool restart at any time, so that rolling updates are automatic and in the background. You can't replicate it easily without a cluster-wide etcd and ignition. I forgot about matchbox. There was also good old fleet, but that one is dead.
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