As of last week week users of Google(s goog) Compute Engine could opt to use CoreOS, a Linux variant designed for huge server deployments and to make OS updates as easy as possible . GCE users already had access to Debian, Red Hat(s rhat) and Suse Linux and CentOS. (In the non-Linux realm, Windows Server support was added in March.)
The brains behind CoreOS include Alex Polvi, founder of Cloudkick and who joined Rackspace(s rax) when it bought that company in late 2010 and Brandon Philips of Rackspace and Suse Labs founded the CoreOS effort.
Per the CoreOS web site:
The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience. We’ve implemented them correctly so you don’t have to endure the slow, learn-as-you-go infrastructure building process.
CoreOS can run on your existing hardware or on most cloud providers. Clustering works across…
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