Flatcar Container Linux Hitches onto the CNCF
The cloud native computing stack has finally gotten its own dedicated operating system.
Built on containers, Flatcar Container Linux, a derivative of the CoreOS distribution, has been accepted as an incubation project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
CoreOS was acquired in 2018 by Red Hat, which itself was acquired a year later by IBM. Kinvolk, a Berlin-based cloud native technology company now owned by Microsoft, originally forked Flatcar from CoreOS Container Linux.