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CoreOS releases Tectonic to General Availability

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by Alan Shimel

After months if not years of development and beta testing with many users CoreOS is taking the wraps off its Tectonic  complete container infrastructure stack. We have reported several times on Tectonic as it has passed through its development stages (here and here).  As of this morning Tectonic Enterprise is now in GA.

Tectonic contains everything you need to run a complete container stack including Kubernetes and a full line of CoreOS products. Among these are:

  • Tectonic Console
    • Provides a complete view of your Tectonic clusters.
    • Includes a curated stack that includes the most trusted open source technologies such as CoreOS Linux (painlessly updating operating system), etcd (key-value data store) and Kubernetes (container cluster manager by Google).
  • Tectonic Identity
    • Built with CoreOS’ newest open source project, dex, this provides cluster-wide single sign-on based on the OpenID Connect standard, integrated into all Tectonic tools.
  • CoreUpdate
    • Gives greater control over the update process of CoreOS machines, which are served from behind a firewall.
  • Quay Enterprise as an included application that sits on top of Tectonic
    • The most secure container registry, Quay Enterprise, secures your containers behind your firewall.

I spoke yesterday with CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi.  He believes that Tectonic gives users the ability to run Google-like infrastructure in their own enterprises. As important it also allows for the popular containerization of apps in production environments. This is a major step forward at a time when most container deployments are still on test and dev servers, not in production.

Alex told me that in the CoreOS way, they actually developed a slew of new technology for Tectonic in addition to using Google Kubernetes which has been given to the Cloud Native Foundation. All of these new modules and codes have been spun off as open source individually.  Pulling them all together into Tectonic was the key.  Pricing for Tectonic is priced per tiered aggregate memory.

Here is a screen shot of the Tectonic Console:

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Colm Keegan, cloud analyst from ESG said this about Tectonic: “Many organizations are interested in leveraging container technology to enable continuous application innovation, faster time to market and improved operational efficiencies across hybrid cloud environments. But the lack of manageability, security and isolation often serves as an obstacle towards container adoption. CoreOS’ Tectonic offering addresses these concerns by providing a consistent and simplified operational framework that can be utilized to securely and more easily manage containers across hybrid cloud infrastructure. This can potentially enable businesses to reduce costs, enhance their Dev/Ops capabilities and gain a competitive edge through more rapid application development and deployment.”

In addition to the general availability announcement CoreOS also announced that its Tectonic Summit is taking place in NYC on December 3rd. They have also opened a new engineering office in Berlin and appointed Joe Beda, who started Google Compute Engine and helped to found Kubernetes to is advisory board.

More information can be found on their blog at : https://tectonic.com/blog/

Alan Shimel

Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.

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