15 engineers on Hacker News describe using CoreOS first-hand: 6 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“My team ran about 50% of a Fortune 500 software company on CoreOS up until a few months ago when we migrated to Flatcar. ... I can count the number of major OS issues we had with it over several years on one hand”
endorse · production · dharmab · 2020-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Same features and stability, but with the auto-update benefits of CoreOS.”
endorse · production · HorizonXP · 2017-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“CoreOS, however, is the real game-changer for us. The automatic updates and ease of management is what took us from a mess of 400+ ill-maintained OpenStack instances”
endorse · production · 2 yr · chrissnell · 2016-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Boot your nodes with CoreOS and it provides almost everything you need (except Kubernetes itself) out-of-the-box. It all works really well together”
endorse · production · chrissnell · 2016-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the cluster upgrades itself which is a big plus, but doesn't work that good in our internal infrastructure with proxies, firewalls”
mixed · production · merb · 2015-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“this happens often with CoreOS updates on the alpha channel.”
regret · production · HorizonXP · 2014-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“coreos is built for large clusters, we run a 3 host cluster in ec2, and couldn't be happier.”
endorse · production · rckclmbr · 2014-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our servers on CoreOS, putting it on the devices as well would be awesome.”
endorse · production · alexandros · 2013-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Kubernetes on CoreOS and every piece runs in a container.”
neutral · production · AndrewHampton · 2015-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd note that CoreOS ships with etcd, and fleet... depends on etcd to function correctly.”
neutral · production · namecast · 2015-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are using CoreOS for the host servers, dumping logs to logstash”
neutral · production · 0.67 yr · knz · 2015-07-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use vagrant to create our docker environment - a 3 machine CoreOS cluster.”
neutral · production · Tomdarkness · 2015-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I develop on OS X and use CoreOS in production.”
neutral · production · olalonde · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use vagrant on our dev machines to spin up a CoreOS cluster.”
neutral · production · Tomdarkness · 2015-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“then use CoreOS + systemd-nspawn to run it across every unprovisioned machine.”
neutral · production · russell_h · 2015-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?