I'm working on a AWS Bottlerocket remix with self-hosted capabilities and Azure/GCP support, and we're planning to release it for a ready to use opinionated CNCF stack Kubernetes distro (about 40 different tools), similar to VMWare Tanzu and RedHat's OpenShift.
We were facing a lot of controversy behind Flatcar already - there's no clear Licensing policy for their "Fully OpenSource" release. Kinvolk should've prepped at least a License matrix of what's been hacked out of CoreOS - what is actually behind their "Pro Features" and how exactly it is "Fully Open Source".
"Flatcar Linux Pro Features", in terms of "Linux Kernel Optimization', "GPU instances support" with "Accelerated Networking", are Not So Pro, and are something that everyone use on a daily basis.
So, just from pure Support Monetization perspective, it's impossible to use Flatcar Linux reliably for Free (mic drop).
We were facing a lot of controversy behind Flatcar already - there's no clear Licensing policy for their "Fully OpenSource" release. Kinvolk should've prepped at least a License matrix of what's been hacked out of CoreOS - what is actually behind their "Pro Features" and how exactly it is "Fully Open Source".
"Flatcar Linux Pro Features", in terms of "Linux Kernel Optimization', "GPU instances support" with "Accelerated Networking", are Not So Pro, and are something that everyone use on a daily basis.
So, just from pure Support Monetization perspective, it's impossible to use Flatcar Linux reliably for Free (mic drop).