Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project, pioneered a Rocky Linux distribution to take the place of classic CentOS late last year , announced the creation of a new commercial company Ctrl IQ . As part of the first tranche of investments, the company has already received $ 4 million from IAG Capital Partners venture capital fund and storage systems manufacturer OpenDrives Inc. Ctrl IQ will sponsor Rocky Linux development and provide legal support for the project, as well as supply a Rocky Linux-based technology stack for enterprise HPC.
It is noted that the Rocky Linux distribution will evolve independently of Ctrl IQ and run by the community. Ctrl IQ will not control the project, but will only act as one of the sponsors to cover the costs and provide legal support. The components underlying the Ctrl IQ technological stack were originally developed for use with CentOS, but a change in Red Hat’s policy towards this distribution forced the search for an alternative, which was the creation of a Rocky Linux distribution.
The software stack being developed in Ctrl IQ will be aimed at providing tools for orchestration of enterprise infrastructure elements spanning different clouds systems, clusters and architectures. The following components form the stack:
- Rocky Linux distribution.
- System Management Toolkit Warewulf , originally designed to manage large Linux-based compute clusters.
- Ctrl Computing Stacks, designed for use in computationally intensive areas such as machine learning, scientific computing, and high performance computing.
- Fuzzball platform for orchestrating workflows and data across on-premises server infrastructures.
- Ctrl IQ Cloud platform for launching and orchestrating workflows and services across various cloud systems.
Additionally, it can be noted that the release candidate for the first release
Rocky Linux scheduled for March 31st. On February 28, it is planned to open access to the experimental package repository and start testing the installer. On January 31, the completion of work on the deployment of the build infrastructure and the system for automatic packaging of packages was scheduled.