CoreOS

CoreOS — the company founded in 2013 developing the software intended for maintenance and the organization of work of the systems of container isolation. Key products of the company are among:

• updated by Linux environment Container Linux/CoreOS   (contains only the minimum set of the components necessary for start of containers);
• register of images  of the containers Quay;
• tools of management  of the containers rkt, distributed system of storage  of the etcd configuration; the platform of the orchestration  of the containers Tectonic  (based on Kubernetes);  Torus storage system;
• tools for initial system configuration  of Ignition;
• service of identification  dex.

2018: Red Hat buys CoreOS for $250 million

On March 31, 2018 the Red Hat company announced acquisition of CoreOS for $250 million for the purpose of development of products and services using the container Kubernetes platform which is actively supported  by CoreOS.

After the closing of the transaction planned for March, 2018, all staff of CoreOS and office in San Francisco will pass into Red Hat, and the last will begin to integrate technologies of the purchased startup with the products, including OpenShift and Red Hat Atomic, and will apply them to new solutions which will be released later.

Red Hat buys the developer of container CoreOS technologies for $250 million

Red Hat promises to continue support of the communities created around the products CoreOS. Besides, it is expected that Red Hat will stop development of own Container Linux project and will concentrate forces on development of more successful products CoreOS.

According to the senior vice president for software development of Red Hat Matt Hicks, by the time of the declaration of acquisition of CoreOS of the company did not decide on what products after merge, however, most likely will be, OpenShift and Tectonic will be joint.

As notes the GeekWire edition, by the end of January, 2018 the most part of business of Red Hat belongs to low technologies, and founders of CoreOS who will pass into the company will help its products to fit into a cloud era.^[1]

In May, 2018 Red Hatanonsirovala the first steps on integration of products Tectonic, Quay and Container Linux, the developed CoreOS, in structure of a solution portfolio of Red Hat. Platforms of container applications, such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, offer IT heads the powerful, constructed on the basis of open standards solutions for digital transformation and the accelerated implementation of relevant technologies (for example, Linux containers and Kubernetes), at the same time saving already available corporate applications and former investments into IT technologies. Thanks to CoreOS technologies, container products and services of Red Hat purchase even more universal character and offer the customer the precise plan of creation and development of the digital enterprise, at the same time turning hybrid clouds on ideal Wednesdays for deployment of both modern, and traditional applications.

The Tectonic and Container Linux technologies received by Red Hat as a result of acquisition of CoreOS in January, 2018 will help customers to carry out automation at all levels of a cloud stack, using advantages of stability and the technical supports characteristic of the corporate products Red Hat. Besides, this automation will cover also the third-party solutions forming Red Hat ecosystem that considerably will simplify to suppliers of such solutions delivery and maintenance of software and services based on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform platform in hybrid environments with the simplicity characteristic of public clouds.

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