CoreOS gives you capacity, dynamically scaled and managed, similar to Google.

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Today is the release of CoreOS, relating to DigitalOcean, A masternode service provider some Darkcoiners use.

https://coreos.com/ Download coreOS

CoreOS rasied 8 million this year for development. http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coreos
CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been rearchitected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks.
CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience.
CoreOS enables warehouse-scale computing on top of a minimal, modern operating system.
CoreOS is Apache 2.0 licensed and runs on your existing hardware or cloud providers.
CoreOS is designed for security, consistency, and reliability.
CoreOS Consumes 40% less RAM on boot than an average Linux installation.
CoreOS Allows for very quick PXE/iPXE booting.
CoreOS uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many CoreOS machines.

"We believe CoreOS has emerged as a top company to watch in next-generation infrastructure."-Greg W. Head of Engineering Services
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/05/digitalocean-partners-with-coreos-to-bring-large-scale-cluster-deployments-to-its-platform/

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/05/di...ge-scale-cluster-deployments-to-its-platform/
Since its launch just a few years ago, DigitalOcean quickly made a name for itself as a hosting platform for affordable virtual servers. The company’s ambition goes far beyond hosting your WordPress blog or test server on a $5/month machine however and today it is taking a next step in this direction by announcing its support for CoreOS, the highly popular container-centric Linux distribution for massive-scale deployments.

“There is a lot of community excitement for CoreOS,” said Mitch Wainer, co-founder and CMO at DigitalOcean in a statement today. “We’re pleased to announce that developers can begin using CoreOS immediately, ensuring the resiliency of their architecture, as their ability to scale at massive levels increases.”

DigitalOcean tells me that it believes its platform is now the “easiest and least expensive way to try out CoreOS and get started using containers on any cloud service”

Given that running a CoreOS cluster is a bit more intricate than just firing up the latest version of Ubuntu on a single server, DigitalOcean users need to take a few extra steps, too. They need to supply a configuration file when they create a new service (or “droplet” in DigitalOcean’s parlance). CoreOS, after all, needs to know what other servers it can talk to. It’s not all that complex to set up these configuration files, but it’s also not trivial by any means.


With the addition of CoreOS support, DigitalOcean is clearly trying to expand its reach beyond the basic virtual server market. And if it wants to be taken seriously in the competition with AWS and Google Cloud Platform, it does need to offer exactly these kind of services.

As the company’s co-founder Ben Uretsky has often told me, the company was so busy just scaling up to meet demand over the last few years that basic product development like adding more distributions often fell by the wayside. Now that DigitalOcean has plenty of funding and a larger staff, it’s able to focus more on adding new features like today’s CoreOS launch.

 

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The closed source binaries for masternodes only work with ubuntu, but it's still a nice project and shows how important linux is.