Flatcar became the most recent addition to the CNCF projects, joining it in the Incubating status.

Flatcar Container Linux is a minimal operating system for Kubernetes, which is closely integrated with Cluster API. It originated as a CoreOS Container Linux derivative and was created in Kinvolk (acquired by Microsoft in 2021).

As Andrew Randall (ex-Chief Commercial Officer of Kinvolk) anticipates, “the Flatcar project's entire raison d'être is to provide a vendor-neutral foundation for cloud native applications, and to enable innovation and collaboration on an open, cloud native operating system platform that is governed _by the community, for the community_.”

P.S. In this Reddit comment, you can find a nice comparison of Flatcar vs. Talos.

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