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Calico + Flannel = Tigera, a New Container Networking Startup

A startup called Tigera is combining open source projects from CoreOS and Metaswitch, seeking to combine them to discover container networking nirvana. It’s a slightly convoluted story that got announced during the startup’s launch today. Tigera announced its presence with a presentation at CoreOS Fest in San Francisco. Tigera’s founders have been working on Project Calico, a complete Layer 3 stack that Metaswitch has offered to the community as open source. They’ll be combining Calico’s network policy management with flannel, CoreOS’s open source project related to container networking. Flannel creates a fabric that relies on etcd, an information-storage daemon for distributed systems. Etcd is the underpinning for Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration project.

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