“Perfect Match” Susecon Digital 2021: Suse united with Rancher for the first time
Suse held its “Susecon Digital 2021”. The focus of the opening keynotes was on the innovations in the upcoming “Service Pack 3” (SP3) for the various “SLES” distributions. They also plan to enter the world of hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI).
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Suse had the US astronaut Scott Kelly as a guest at the opening of “Suseon Digital 2021″; presumably this is why the opening speakers, such as Markus Noga, Vice President Engineering & Innovation at Suse,” officiated ” in a start-bar environment.
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“We solve the biggest challenges in the world” – including CEO Melissa Di Donato did not do it in her opening speech at Susecon Digital 2021.
Suse CEO Melissa Di Donato at the opening of HASU’s own conference ” Susecon Digital 2021“
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“Our commitment to open interoperability is based on our belief that we can deliver unique value in each of our products and will continue to innovate faster than our competitors to grow our market leadership,” said Di Donato. The conference consisted of three modules: “Kube World” , “Linux World” and “Edge World”.
Sheng Liang, President, Engineering & Innovation at Suse talks about “perfect match”.
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Sheng Liang, President of Engineering & Innovation and successor to Thomas DiGiacomo, who now serves as Chief Technology & amp; Product Officer, also tutored in a virtual environment reminiscent of “Star Trek” in the same horn as Di Donato, when he introduced Suse as the “only true open source company”. One is “Open open Source”, because as the only Linux distribution you can also manage all other Linux distributions.
“This approach is based on the belief that customers must have the freedom to choose exactly the products that meet their needs – that’s the only way they can be innovative and successful,” says Liang. He complained that most other open source providers have now become “proprietary” in some ways.
Suse, however, has become the “perfect fit” for every data center through the acquisition of Rancher, whose co-founder is Liang, and the resulting new enterprise Linux, Kubernetes, cloud, edge and hybrid IT solutions, which was completed at the end of last year. The linchpin of the strategy is Enterprise Linux and Kubernetes management as the basis of the modern IT stack. The two product families “Suse Linux Enterprise “and” Suse Rancher ” would soon come up with new service packs, releases and solutions:
Suse Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 3 (SLES 15 SP3) provides compatibility between “Opensuse Leap” and Suse Linux Enterprise. Users can move workloads from development and UAT environments with Leap to production environments with SLES 15 SP3. Users of “CentOS”, which no longer has binary compatibility with commercial Linux distributions, should also be assisted in the migration to Leap.
New are Suse Linux Enterprise “Base Container Images” (SLE BCI), which provide container images and tools for application development. There should also be “specially hardened and certified SLE BCI”.
SLES 15 SP3 includes updated support for Intel, AMD, and IBM Z and Power hardware platforms, ARM chipsets, improved database support and performance, and STIG compliance and crypto support.
Concrete innovations compared to the SP2 are:
- A new branding (fonts, wallpapers …)
- SLES 15 SP3 Beta Base container (updated weekly)
- perl 5.26.1, nodejs 14.15.4, ruby 2.5.8, python3 3.6.12, python39 3.9.0
- Mozilla Firefox 78.7.1 and Mozilla Thunderbird 78.7.0
- Updated packages for FIPS compliance
- Rootless container feature now with podman
- xca replaces YAST2 CA Management
- “PostgreSQL13” in the Standard Version
- PostgreSQL12 and PostgreSQL10 now in the legacy module
Suse Rancher 2.6 gets a new UI design and improved support for public cloud Kubernetes services in the form of lifecycle management for “Microsoft AKS” and “Google GKE” (in addition to existing support for “Amazon EKS”). Support for Suse Linux Enterprise Base Container Images (SLE BCI) is also new.
Suse Edge will soon offer a software infrastructure for creating and managing cloud-enabled and native applications across edge environments. These can be connected to public and private clouds and data centers. Included are Suse Linux Enterprise Micro, the Kubernetes distribution K3s, both designed specifically for Edge operating environments, Rancher, and Suse Manager for managing non-containerized application workloads.
Markus Noga, VP Engineering & Innovation, Suse since the end of last year
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Suse Hybrid IT consists of Rancher,” RKE”,” Longhorn”, “Suse Manager” and SLES and thus forms a complete software stack for the execution of both conventional applications and cloud-native applications in data centers and cloud environments, according to Markus Noga, VP Engineering & Innovation since the end of last year.
Noga also announced the beta release of” Harvester”, a hyperconverged open source software based on Kubernetes. It can manage both VMs and containers, enabling hybrid cloud management for Amazon, Azure and Google Cloud.
US astronaut Scott Kelly, the most experienced person in space, also reveals something intimate.
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A real highlight of the Susecon was the keynote of the US astronaut Scott Kelly, with 520 days the most experienced person in space. Something like that makes you calm. When asked what his biggest challenge in orbit was, he explained: “Have you ever worn the same underpants for a year?”This and many more stunning glimpses of extraterrestrial life can be found in this recording.
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