München/Raleigh (N.C.), Starnberg, 01. Febr. 2018 - Stärkt das Angebot im Bereich Kubernetes und Container-nativer Cloud-Lösungen zum automatisierten IT-Betrieb...
Zum Hintergrund: Red Hat hat am 30. Jan. 2018 offiziell eine Vereinbarung zur Übernahme von CoreOS zu einem Kaufpreis von 250 Millionen US-Dollar unterzeichnet. CoreOS ist ein führender Anbieter im Bereich Kubernetes und Container-nativen Lösungen, wurde 2013 gegründet und ist bekannt für CoreOS Tectonic (siehe Abb. 1 unten), eine Open-Source Enterprise-ready Kubernetes-Plattform, die Portabilität zwischen Private und Public Clouds ermöglicht. Das Unternehmen ist an vielen Open-Source-Innovationen beteiligt, die das Herzstück von containerisierten Anwendungen bilden. Bei Kubernetes spielt CoreOS eine führende Rolle. Darüber hinaus hat CoreOS die Application Container Engine an die Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) übergeben, die sich im Rahmen der Open Container Initiative (OCI) um die Weiterentwicklung kümmert.
Mit dem Kauf von CoreOS will Red Hat nach eigenen Angaben seine Strategie weiter umsetzen, Unternehmen in die Lage zu versetzen, beliebige Applikationen zu entwickeln und in jeder Umgebung mit der Flexibilität von Open Source einzusetzen. Durch die Kombination der komplementären Fähigkeiten von CoreOS mit dem umfangreichen Kubernetes- und Container-basierten Portfolio von Red Hat – darunter Red Hat OpenShift – plant der Anbieter die Einführung und Entwicklung einer branchenweit führenden hybriden Cloud-Plattform für moderne Applikations-Workloads weiter vorantreiben.
Kommentar Alex Polvi, CEO, CoreOS: "Red Hat and CoreOS’s relationship began many years ago as open source collaborators developing some of the key innovations in containers and distributed systems, helping to make automated operations a reality. This announcement marks a new stage in our shared aim to make these important technologies ubiquitous in business and the world. Thank you to the CoreOS family, our customers, partners, and most of all, the free software community for supporting us in our mission to make the internet more secure through automated operations.”
Abb. 1: Inside the CoreOS Tectonic Stack (Bildquelle: CoreOS)
Weitere Details hierzu nachfolgend aus Aktualitätsgründen in der gekürzten Red Hat Originalmitteilung:
"With CoreOS, Red Hat doubles down on technology to help customers build, run and manage containerized applications in hybrid and multicloud environments
As applications move to hybrid and multicloud environments, a growing number of organizations are using containers to more easily build, deploy and move applications to, from, and across clouds. IDC noted (1), "Substantial advances in cloud adoption, simplification, and portability are underway. The demand for cloud continues to grow, and enterprises now anticipate that cloud architecture will dominate their spending for the next several years. With the growing sophistication of containers, customers are looking to their application platform providers to help them use containers to transition and extend existing production applications to be useful in public or private cloud.”
Founded in 2013, CoreOS was created with a goal of building and delivering infrastructure for organizations of all sizes that mirrored that of large-scale software companies, automatically updating and patching servers and helping to solve pain points like downtime, security and resilience...
CoreOS is the creator of CoreOS Tectonic, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform that provides automated operations, enables portability across private and public cloud providers, and is based on open source software. It also offers CoreOS Quay, an enterprise-ready container registry. CoreOS is also well-known for helping to drive many of the open source innovations that are at the heart of containerized applications, including Kubernetes, where it is a leading contributor; Container Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution created and maintained by CoreOS that automates software updates and is streamlined for running containers; etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes; and rkt, an application container engine, donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), that helped drive the current Open Container Initiative (OCI) standard.
The transaction is expected to have no material impact to Red Hat's guidance for its fourth fiscal quarter or fiscal year ending Feb. 28, 2018.
The transaction is expected to close in January 2018, subject to customary closing conditions."
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(1) IDC: Worldwide Application Platform and Application Platform as a Service Market Shares, 2016: Container Strategy Required, June 2017