This makes sense. Red Hat has been investing in Project Atomic for a while now and CoreOS still seems like a better option, if you're looking for a container-only OS that has been battle tested.<p>Additionally, both companies seem like good places to work, with leadership that's often praised and has the results to show. I'm happy for CoreOS on this one, they're joining a company that I admire.<p>Looking forward to see how this will impact RHEL8.
This is a good move for CoreOS and Red Hat, I think.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.
From a financial viewpoint, CoreOs took in an investment of ~$50M [1] and sold for $250M. Assuming the $50M investment comprised 50% of the equity pool, a 2.5X return on investment isn't too bad.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coreos" rel="nofollow">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coreos</a>
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s content, the foundation of our application ecosystem will remain our only Linux offering. Whereas, some of the delivery mechanisms pioneered by Container Linux will be reviewed by a joint integration team and reconciled with Atomic."<p>So long, Container Linux, we hardly knew ye... ?
well it would be cool if some of their stuff would be 100% open source than. Like the CoreUpdate interface.<p>But well CoreOS is already extremly extremly simple for running k8s and stuff.<p>We've used CoreOS basically from the beginning. We are small and so had a fleet cluster with 3 nodes.
It worked, kinda but due to docker it wasn't a nice experience. Docker just had a too fast changing cycle and to much things didn't worked as we liked.<p>However now we run more and more internal stuff on k8s self hosted cluster and it's basically a breeze. we use ignition to bootstrap the nodes and then we just need to run kubeadm join on every node. everything else is self configuring.<p>bootstrapping k8s was basically just 3x kubeadm init.
with calico we can even bgp route every pod and can access them.<p>the only pain point is storage, but this is not a problem of coreos.
small scale high available disks would be cool, but this is not an easy problem. we have nfs but it is not on k8s and minio is only good for object storage (and needs 4 nodes, while I would prefer a solution that uses either etcd or k8s configmap as a backing store for HA).<p>Edit:
I completly forgotten. Thanks for all what you guys did and I hope you will be good under the RedHat umbrella.<p>(P.S.: if tectonic would be free to use for all sizes, that would be even more amazing, but I'm probably dreaming).
Not great news if you use container Linux:<p><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos" rel="nofollow">https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos</a><p><i>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 foundation of our application ecosystem will remain our only Linux offering. Whereas, some of the delivery mechanisms pioneered by Container Linux will be reviewed by a joint integration team and reconciled with Atomic.</i>
Blog post from Red Hat: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/coreos-bet" rel="nofollow">https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/coreos-bet</a><p>Red Hat FAQ: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos" rel="nofollow">https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos</a><p>CoreOS Blog post: <a href="https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-agrees-to-join-red-hat/" rel="nofollow">https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-agrees-to-join-red-hat/</a><p>(Added FAQ and CoreOS links)
Congrats to Alex and his team! I've loved their technology since their alpha days. Glad to see it working out and hopefully getting into more hands with the acquisition.
Congratulations Alex & co for a great exit. I think the price is great considering that it is pretty much impossible to survive as an independent company in the infra space.
It's all about Openshift. Redhat developers have actively contributed to Kubernetes for about two years now.<p>Now they'll own the entire stack and have a great integration story for enterprises. Even though containers have been around 3+ year's in the form of docker, corporations still don't have a scooby on how to integrate their existing deployment and development workflows.
Is this a good technical fit? Is this good for the tech community as a whole?<p>I am a bit disheartened to see discussions often going in the direction of big corporation politics / power play, rather than how it benefits the community.
Great to see their innovation recognized and hopefully it will become even more popular & widespread with RedHat's distribution muscle and enterprise customer relationships.
A quick D&B search on CoreOS, Inc. shows revenues of ~$550,000 [1], which means at $250m acquisition price, RH paid ~454X revenues..!<p>[1] <a href="http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/company-search.html?term=coreos" rel="nofollow">http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/company-search.ht...</a>
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?
What i dont get is why Google ventures gave it ? Perhaps because CoreOS was based on chromeos and doesnt fit to fuschia OS and the new microkernel ? Anyways congrats to both RH & CoreOS. RH got passionate people in love with problem and CoreOS Core team monetised the value and innovation which they shared openly to the community. Thanks CoreOS team good luck !
I started learning about containerization just this week. I didn't even know there were other popular alternatives to docker. So from what I gather, coreOS/rkt is an alternative to alpine/docker, with kubernetes instead of docker swarm as their primary orchestration solution?
Happy for the team, sad for the product. I've always wondered how long they would survive for. I was actually afraid they would go out of business.