Flatcar Container Linux: Continuing the CoreOS Legacy - Andrew Randall, Iago López Galeiras, Kinvolk
Channel: Cloud Native Rejekts
Date: 2020-09-03

This session will introduce Flatcar Container Linux, the secure operating system for running containers at scale, based on the pioneering work of CoreOS. We cover the origins, current status, and roadmap of the Flatcar project, and will demonstrate a seamless upgrade from CoreOS Container Linux.

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Speakers: Andrew Randall, Iago López Galeiras

Andy is passionate about technology and believes successful businesses deliver solutions and services that delight customers, the open source community and ecosystem partners.
Prior to joining Kinvolk, Andy co-founded Tigera and Calico, the foundational open source cloud native networking and network security project. Andy previously has successfully built and grown businesses in the areas of network protocols, voice over IP and web conferencing at Metaswitch. He holds a joint MBA from Berkeley-Haas and Columbia Business Schools. He also holds masters degrees in software engineering, philosophy and mathematics from the Universities of Oxford and Stirling.

Iago brought his relaxed Spanish demeanor to Berlin a few years back.
Since then, he’s been diving and swimming around the internals of various Linux flavors; Android, embedded and Cloud. He’s a top contributor to the rkt project and for the past year he was pushing the limits of eBPF to get runtime statistics. Although he once got distracted by functional programming, his daily tasks see him working mainly in Go and C.
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