Flatcar Container Linux
The community successor to CoreOS Container Linux: a minimal, auto-updating OS for containers. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Flatcar community (Microsoft, CNCF)
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2018
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.flatcar.org
- Family
- Gentoo
- Based on
- CoreOS Container Linux (built with Gentoo tooling)
- Package manager
- None (systemd-sysext)
- Package format
- None (whole-image updates)
- Release model
- Rolling
- Release cadence
- Alpha, beta and stable channels, a new LTS each year
- Support lifetime
- Rolling, 18 months for LTS
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- None
- Immutable
- Yes
- Made for
- Containers, Cloud, Server
- Backed by
- A company
- Beginner friendliness
- 2 of 5
- Architectures
- amd64, arm64