Functionally speaking, there is no inherent link between DevOps methodology and open source. Yet, DevOps as we know it would not exist if not for the cultural innovations that the open source software movement helped to pioneer.
Run cloud native workloads across clouds and all the way to the edge as if running on a single server.
The real value in the CoreOS deal is the startup's 130 or so employees and the content of their brains.
The open source startup Heptio partnered with Redmond to bring its Kubernetes cluster disaster recovery tool to Microsoft Azure.
At KubeCon, Bitnami demonstrated a tool for deploying pre-packaged Kubernetes containers with the click of a mouse.