The "what" and "why" of Flatcar Linux, a friendly fork of Container Linux
summary
Flatcar Linux is a one-to-one compatible fork of CoreOS Container Linux that reproduces Chromium OS/Gentoo lineage, automated A/B atomic update with fallback and alpha/beta/stable channels, and a build pipeline that applies trademark patches then publishes images (about 20 releases so far, occasionally publishing before upstream). The project provides support for Typhon and is expanding cloud images for DigitalOcean, Azure and GCE, plans commercial support tiers, hires for a dedicated maintenance team, and offers custom experimental images.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:02About Kinfolk and our mission
- 4:34What is Flatcar Linux
- 8:50Why fork Container Linux
- 13:25Kinfolk’s role and philosophy
- 17:56Current status of Flatcar
- 22:08Future plans for Flatcar
- 25:41Q&A session
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