On: Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

[blixtra]

Chris from Kinvolk here. Happy to see you're having success with Flatcar. We, of course, agree that CoreOS Container Linux was a huge success. The uptake that we've seen in Flatcar usage, especially since the CoreOS EOL date on May 26th, has been extraordinary. So from what we a can see, the market is there for a minimal Linux for containers and and we're happy to continue filling that need with Flatcar.

[csours → blixtra]

Do you have any resources for understanding OSS/FOSS around minimal Linux distributions for containers?

[blixtra → csours]

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. But Flatcar Container Linux is completely open source. In fact, everything we do at Kinvolk is. We do not build open-core products.

For example, we've gone a step further than CoreOS did and have a fully open-sourced update server, Nebraska (https://github.com/kinvolk/nebraska). We also generate a list of contents and licenses for each build. Here is an example from the most recent stable: https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/2512.2.1/...

[teraku → blixtra]

That sounds really interesting! I currently work on a side-project which is a distributed application and I plan on incorporating kubernetes/cloud-native into some of the core concepts, so I will check it out once I'm at this part of the implementation!