Chapter 1. CoreOS, Yet Another Linux Distro?

As more and more applications move toward the cloud with server virtualization, there is a clear necessity for deploying user applications and services very fast and reliably with assured SLA by deploying the services in the right set of servers. This becomes more complex when these services are dynamic in nature, which results in making these services auto-provisioned and auto-scaled over a set of nodes. The orchestration of the user application is not limited to deploying the services in the right set of servers or virtual machines, rather to be extended to provide network connectivity across these services to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Compute, network, and storage are the three ...

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