Fedora CoreOS is available for general use

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In early 2018, Red Hat acquired CoreOS for $ 250 million, and in June announced the release of Fedora CoreOS. This distro becomes the new upstream release of CoreOS.

Fedora CoreOS is a new version of Fedora built specifically to run containerized workloads securely and at scale. It is a successor of Fedora Atomic Host and CoreOS Container Linux. Fedora CoreOS combines Container Linux’s provisioning tools, automatic update models and ideas with packaging technology, OCI support, and SELinux security for Atomic Host.

Some features of Fedora CoreOS include:

  • Automatic updates phased deployment and phased rollout
  • Built on Fedora 31 with the following features:
    • Linux 5.4
    • systemd 243
    • Ignition 2.1
  • Support for OCI and Docker containers with Podman 1.7 and Moby 18.09 
  • Cgroups v1 is enabled by default for wider compatibility; cgroups v2 is configurable

Fedora CoreOS currently supports multiple platforms, including:

  • Bare metal, QEMU, OpenStack, and VMware
  • Images available in public AWS domains
  • Alibaba, AWS, Azure, and GCP downloadable cloud images
  • Runs in real-time from RAM via ISO and PXE (netboot) images

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