Strategy • Headlamp, Flatcar Container Linux and Inspector Gadget were both developed by Kinvolk, a German startup company • In 2021, Microsoft acquired Kinvolk and contributed the project to the open-source community, but in reality, the original Kinvolk team remained the main contributors and driving force behind it. • Acquiring Kinvolk to enhance upstream open source contributions in the fields of Kubernetes and containers https://opensource.microsoft.com/projects/ https://kinvolk.io/