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Kinvolk Blog
Company blog · kinvolk.io/blogsystemsprogramming
Kinvolk Blog is the company blog at kinvolk.io, writing about systems and programming. Since 2016, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Microsoft Acquires Kinvolk”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kinvolk's posts as references on CoreOS and Flatcar Container Linux, the 2021 Microsoft acquisition, and benchmarks of Istio and Ampere ARM servers. The comments cite these posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Microsoft Acquires Kinvolk6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-04-29
- Comparative Benchmark of Arm, AMD, and Intel for Cloud-Native Workloads4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-11-18
- Towards unprivileged container builds3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-25
- Performance Benchmark Analysis of Istio and Linkerd3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-18
- Extending Systemd Security Features with eBPF3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-09
- Flatcar Container Linux – Commercially supported Linux for container workloads2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-22
- Performance Benchmark Analysis of Egress Filtering on Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-10
- Kinvolk Labs: Investigating Kubernetes Performance Issues with BPF2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-24
- Announcing Flatcar Linux, a commercially supported fork of Container Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-06
What Hacker News says?
Kinvolk | Linux and Cloud Infrastructure Engineers | Berlin, DE | Full-time | ONSITE (or REMOTE for those that have done it before) Kinvolk is a small (currently 12 ppl) software engineering team/consultancy focused on open-source systems-level Linux and distributed systems projects. Some our our specialties are container runtimes, (e)BPF, systemd and Kubernetes. We mostly work in Golang, C and Rust. We've worked wi…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Headlamp: a new UI for Kubernetes as a story · 126 points
HN discussionKinvolk ( https://kinvolk.io ), the Kubernetes Linux experts | Berlin, Bengaluru ONSITE or REMOTE | Full Time Kinvolk is a company focused on services and products for open-source cloud native Linux technologies. While having started out 4+ years ago as a consulting company (we built rkt with CoreOS, for example), we've recently added products to the mix. The first of which is Flatcar Container Linux, our drop-in re…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)”Submitted Testing services on Kubernetes with Linux traffic control as a story · 78 points
HN discussion> That is, a minimal base system that's built for immutable container images, providing just what's needed to bootstrap the current generation of language-specific build and package systems. At least for the first half, that sounds sort of like Fedora/Red Hat CoreOS[0], the predecessor CoreOS fork Flatcar Container Linux[1], or the Amazon distribution BottleRocket[2]. [0] https://getfedora.org/en/coreos?stream=stabl…
Comment linking /flatcar-container-linux/
on “The modern packager’s security nightmare”Submitted Comparative Benchmark of Arm, AMD, and Intel for Cloud-Native Workloads as a story · 65 points
HN discussionKinvolk ( https://kinvolk.io ), the Kubernetes Linux experts | Berlin, Bengaluru ONSITE or REMOTE | Full Time Kinvolk is a company focused on services and products for open-source cloud native Linux technologies. While having started out 4+ years ago as a consulting company (we built rkt with CoreOS, for example), we've recently added products to the mix. The first of which is Flatcar Container Linux, our drop-in re…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)”Submitted Kinvolk Labs: Investigating Kubernetes Performance Issues with BPF as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI still miss CoreOS, it was a really good solution. Edit: as said in another comment in this thread, there are now alternatives to CoreOS! - Fedora CoreOS: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/ - Flatcar Container Linux: https://kinvolk.io/flatcar-container-linux/
Comment linking /flatcar-container-linux/
on “Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core”Submitted Lokomotive: An engine to drive cutting-edge Linux technologies into Kubernetes as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThat report resulted in an update to Istio docs: “Warning not to use demo profile for performance evaluation” https://github.com/istio/istio.io/pull/4220 More here, which basically suggests, don’t stop Istio from scaling out before 500 rps, it doesn’t like that at all: https://kinvolk.io/blog/2019/05/performance-benchmark-analys...
Comment linking /blog/2019/05/performance-benchmark-analysis-of-istio-and-linkerd/
on “Building Facebook's Service Encryption Infastructure”Submitted Performance Benchmark Analysis of Egress Filtering on Linux as a story · 30 points
HN discussionRed Hat is backing CRI-O for an alternative OCI runtime. While we did pave the way for creating alternatives for Docker in Kubernetes, CoreOS never quite got rkt to 100% stability in Kubernetes. Personally, I love a lot of things about rkt, but the project's ultimate goal was to have standards, regardless of whether or not it was AppC. If you're still interested in rkt (it's great tech that we still use to this day…
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on “Roadmap for CoreOS Integration with Red Hat OpenShift”Submitted Performance Benchmark Analysis of Istio and Linkerd as a story · 20 points
HN discussionLayers are integral in Docker, layers were pushed as enabling reuse, composibility, 'immutability', every 'run' statement is a layer. They are not an implementation detail. Managing all these layers adds complexity and impact users from choosing storage drivers, to using layers to building images, and if you are going to use layers you need to be a privileged user to mount all these layers. [1] Here is an example. I…
Comment linking /blog/2018/04/towards-unprivileged-container-builds/
on “LXD 3.8 has been released”Submitted Microsoft Acquires Kinvolk as a story · 17 points
HN discussionredhat coreos isn't really based on coreos tech at all, its ostree/rpm-tree. the kinvolk folks maintain a coreos distro based on the original tech https://kinvolk.io/coreos-eol https://www.flatcar.org
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on “Linux fu: getting started with systemd”Submitted Write Kubernetes Network Policies with Inspektor Gadget’s Network Policy Advisor as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAnyone have thoughts on how this might compare to something like Ampere's ARM server chips? Seems like the custom chips are indeed ARM based as well? I saw some benchmarks recently on Ampere chips that had me fairly impressed. https://kinvolk.io/blog/2019/11/comparative-benchmark-of-amp...
Comment linking /blog/2019/11/comparative-benchmark-of-ampere-emag-amd-epyc-and-intel-xeon-for-cloud-native-workloads/
on “Amazon's cloud unit readies more powerful data center chip – sources”Submitted Investigating Kubernetes performance issues with BPF as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNote: similar, but definitely not the same. The real continuation of CoreOS was Flatcar Linux ( https://www.flatcar.org/ ), but then the company behind that was bought by Microsoft ( https://kinvolk.io/blog/2021/04/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk/ ) and I really don't expect much of them anymore...
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk/
on “Quadlets might make me finally stop using Docker-compose – Major Hayden”Submitted Introducing gobpf – Using eBPF from Go as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe most significant change this acquisition brought to Flatcar was to turn it from a vendor-driven open source project to a community-driven one. Also see Kinvolk's statement at the time: https://kinvolk.io/blog/2021/04/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk/ Since then, the project has opened up and has become fully community driven - releases, features, stewardship, everything. To further underline independent stewardship, F…
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk/
on “Flatcar Container Linux”Submitted Porting an eBPF-based application to arm64: our experience with Inspektor Gadget as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extending Systemd Security Features with eBPF as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparative Benchmark of Arm, AMD, and Intel for Cloud-Native Workloads as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Flatcar Linux, a commercially supported fork of Container Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Timing issues when using BPF with virtual CPUs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Degraded Network Scenarios with Rkt as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft Acquires Kinvolk (Company Behind Flatcar Linux) as a story · 3 points
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