Hummingbird: Red Hat’s Answer to Alpine, Ubuntu Chiseled, Wolfi

Linux powerhouse Red Hat has unveiled Project Hummingbird, a new initiative designed to accelerate cloud native development by delivering micro-sized container images for enterprise environments.

Wait, some of you are saying, didn’t Red Hat acquire CoreOS with its minimal Linux distribution, Container Linux, back in 2018? And, wasn’t Container Linux explicitly designed for containerized workloads and automated updates? Yes, it was.

Flatcar Container Linux: Designed for Container Workloads

To continue, Container Linux morphed into Flatcar…