CoreOS
Open source tools of modern distributed systems.
Kleiner Perkins · 2014
Alex Polvi · 1 founder
2018Acquired by Red Hat, Inc.
Acquired · 5 yrs independentTeam
150
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Co-founders
1
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Acquired
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About
CoreOS is part of the Red Hat family. A leader in the open source community and an innovator of open source projects, CoreOS creates and delivers critical components for containerized applications that help fuel broad adoption of secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure. The team maintains several open source projects, including: Container Linux: the secure automatic updating OS; and etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes. Join us at https://coreos.com/ and @CoreOS on Twitter.