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Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by Already__Taken »

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/

I just can't get a decent "This is how to get started" from windows guide with atomic. It's all assuming I'm perfectly happy on linux. Not to knock it, but I just want to start some VMs on hyper-v and have a go.

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by arianvanp »

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

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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.

Container Optimised OS (Which is just ChromiumOS stripped down) has been working pretty nicely for me on GCloud. Just reboot and you have the latest updates. https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concept...

It's also open source

But yeh, Matchbox + Ignition for automatically bringing up configured nodes with iPXE was an extremely powerful combination. However, those ideas can be easily ported over or already exist through cloud-init.

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by merb »

arianvanp wrote: post #52
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.

Container Optimised OS (Which is just ChromiumOS stripped down) has been working pretty nicely for me on GCloud. Just reboot and you have the latest updates. https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concept... It's also open source But yeh, Matchbox + Ignition for automatically bringing up configured nodes with iPXE was an extremely powerful combination. However, those ideas can be easily ported over or a…

well basically we use that on gcloud k8s in the future. but we still have a bare metal cluster. we only used ignition + vmware to provision it in the first place and it was a breeze.. etcd was configured on the fly in a HA setup, k8s was made ready to bootstrap (just needed to run kubeadm init --config...) and we had basically a working cluster. highly available, with as many nodes we wanted, just copy the worker.yaml and edit what's needed.

we actually play around with tectonic at the moment.

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by frakkingcylons »

jlgaddis wrote: post #25
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #22

This should be in the title, by the way: "for a purchase price of $250 million"

Out of curiosity, why "should" that be in the title? There's only so much one can fit in there and, personally, I think the price itself is just fine in the article/press release.

This story is inherently about a purchase and all that needs to be added is "for $250M".

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by emmelaich »

SEJeff wrote: post #36
numbsafari wrote: post #30

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

Fedora / CentOS Atomic, which is Redhat's "clone" of container linux.

Atomic (or at least OStree) predates ContainerLinux by quite a bit.

Also Atomic is more than just an OS; it's a system of reliable upgrades / versions switching. So it's got something in common with NixOS.

Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

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Post by jacques_chester »

This is a good move for CoreOS and Red Hat, I think.

I've thought for a while that the platform market would shake out and be left with one and at most two winners. Previously we saw Deis fold into Microsoft and now CoreOS into Red Hat.

I expect that Docker will run independently for another few years before their investors realise it's time to push for an acquisition exit, but it's unclear by whom. I figure Heptio will go to one of Red Hat, Google or Microsoft.

As for CoreOS's technologies, my guess is that Red Hat will be gently herding Tectonic and Container Linux users to OpenShift and RHEL respectively. About the only products I expect to survive fully intact would be Quay and etcd.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we compete with Red Hat and Docker. So read my remarks with whatever mix of skepticism and mirth you think is appropriate.

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