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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the building-out-the-platform dept.

Enterprise Linux biz Red Hat on Tuesday said it has reached an agreement to acquire CoreOS, a maker of open source container software, for $250 million.

Kubernetes, for those who have managed to avoid it, is a Google-spawned open source project that has become more or less the standard for orchestrating the deployment and oversight of large numbers of software-based containers.

The elder open source software biz sees the younger firm's technology helping it automate and simplify its OpenShift container app platform, as well as improving its security and application portability in hybrid cloud environments.

Red Hat says it will provide more details about how CoreOS products will be handled in the months ahead. It characterizes them as complementary to its own wares, althugh its plans may involve "integrating products and migrating customers to any combined offerings" at some later date.

[...] Forrester analyst Dave Bartoletti told The Register that he thinks the deal is great news for CoreOS and for the Kubernetes market in general.

"I don't think the industry needed another Kubernetes-based container automation platform," he said, in reference to Tectonic. "Now that every major cloud development platform provider offers managed Kubernetes, how was CoreOS going to monetize its own?"

Bartoletti said Red Hat has already demonstrated that it can make money off open source and made the shift to Kubernetes three years ago.

"I expect Polvi and team will mainly continue to do what they already do well: contribute to and set the direction of the major open source technologies that will power the next generation of container-based apps – a market that's set to double in the next 18 months," he said. ®


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @01:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @01:38PM (#631982)

    While docker seems to just be a respin and repackaging of existing tech, and while it was initially rather buggy, I've been impressed with how easy it is to spin up new projects and manage systems with docker / docker-compose.

    I'd like to see docker swarm succeed as much as the others have.