"Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s content, the foundation of our application ecosystem will remain our only Linux offering. Whereas, some of the delivery mechanisms pioneered by Container Linux will be reviewed by a joint integration team and reconciled with Atomic."

So long, Container Linux, we hardly knew ye... ?

Is the interesting part of Container Linux open-source? Can anyone fork it and build a similar offering, simpler than RHEL?

What is the source? I didn't see that in the linked article.

From their FAQ: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos

Perhaps you want to look at something like Hashicorp's Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/) which will do most, if not all, of what you're looking for.

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Only feature missing is that it apparently can't dump an existing setup to file; looks like you have to write them from scratch.

I think this is a clear play at driving some of the key components in the OpenStack world, with GlusterFS (subject of an earlier Red Hat acquisition) and Ceph being the two main distributed storage choices.