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Microsoft isn’t only a Windows company. It now shepherds several Linux distributions alongside its own operating systems. It’s important to remember that these aren’t general-purpose Linuxes like Ubuntu or Red Hat. Instead, they’re targeted at specific use cases: SoNIC for cloud-scale network hardware, SphereOS for secured industrial Internet of Things hardware, and CBL-Mariner as a

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Microsoft bolsters Azure hybrid container platform capabilities with Kinvolk buy Kinvolk builds and maintains open source projects that span all layers of the cloud native stack. Credit: Dreamstime Microsoft has acquired German Flatcar Container Linux creator Kinvolk with the intention of bringing the expertise of the compa...

Microsoft acquires Kinvolk, the Berlin-based cloud startup behind Flatcar Container Linux April 29, 2021 at 8:45 am News Brief Microsoft announced its acquisition of Kinvolk, a 6-year-old startup out of Berlin that develops open source cloud-based projects. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kinvolk is the company behind Flatcar Container Linux, an alternative to CoreOS Container Linux designed for container workloads. Kinvolk will contribute to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Arc, �...