Microsoft Corporation acquires Kinvolk

Microsoft Corporation acquired Kinvolk, a transaction announced in April 2021.

Kinvolk operates in Microsoft Azure (Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc), is based in Germany. Kinvolk GmbH is an open-source cloud-native engineering firm known for Flatcar Container Linux, the Lokomotive and Inspektor Gadget projects, and early work on Kubernetes, eBPF and container-optimized Linux. Microsoft acquired the team to advance Azure's container platform and deepen its upstream open-source contributions.

Bring container-optimized Linux and Kubernetes expertise to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Arc, expanding hybrid container capabilities and open-source engagement.

Microsoft is excited to bring the expertise of the Kinvolk team to Azure, where they will be key contributors to the engineering development of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Arc, and future projects that will expand Azure's hybrid container platform capabilities.Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure

Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.

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