What will happen to CoreOS now that it is part of Red Hat?

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La purchase of CoreOS by Red Hat It was one of the great news and developments. In doing so, coupled with Kubernetes, they position Red Hat in a good position to be leaders in cloud technologies in its intense battle with SuSE, the other great company struggling to dominate in the professional sector. Both companies do not cease to make agreements and new acquisitions in order to be increasingly stronger, competitive and satisfy their customers.

But until then, CoreOS was an independent project and now this purchase changes everything. What future plans does Red Hat have for CoreOS? Can we continue to use it independently without purchasing other Red Hat products or services? I think that this movement in the market has generated many doubts and questions from many, that is why we are going to try to put some order. The first effect it will have will be directly accused by Red Hat products, which will see how this project integrates with them to improve their business services.

Red Hat Core OS It will replace Atomic Host and Container Linux, functioning as a single container-centric system. But for the rest of the community it seems that there will not be too much problem, since there will be a CoreOS version that will remain independent and developed in a community way, news that relieves a bit for all those who need the CoreOS project without having to depend on the red hat company services.

That is, something similar to what is CentOS or Fedora regarding RHEL. On the other hand, the Porject Atomic site will be progressively eliminated and faded, but it will not be abrupt, and the code will remain alive in Red Hat repositories. Container Linux will also continue for the time being. On the other hand, we have also known that the release frequency of the new versions of CoreOS will be synchronized with that of OpenShift.


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