The SUSE® Manager (+ Retail) Roadmap
FUT-1440
IT infrastructure lifecycle management for everyone
Benjamin Landorff Product Manager [email protected]
1 SUSE® Manager
2 Infrastructure Dev(Sec)Ops IT Infrastructure Lifecycle Management for Everyone
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6 Help, My SAP Goes HANA!
7 Setting The Stage
I have no Linux experience Those HANA boxes are the only SUSE I have Nothing can go into production if I haven’t staged and tested it before
“Follow the SAP Notes”, they said!
8 Making The SAP Admin Happy ...
SUSE Manager installation not just easy, but super-easy
Best practices included: Salt Formulas for SAP HANA and HA Clusters!
Staging of content without scripts and CLI commands
Ready for the Public Cloud!
Containers? Check!
9 From Brick And Mortar To Bits and Beacons Re-building The Retail Experience
10 Setting The Stage
I have only a handful of guys to manage a lot of systems
And I mean a lot!
And its getting more!
We don’t only have SUSE. There’s some Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu as well!
My bandwidth to the store is a real issue! Sometimes there’s no network at all.
I don’t want to patch, but I have to!
11 Wait, There’s More!
Our “digital experience” guys want to deploy new stuff as VMs or even containers every week!
Let them dream on. After all, it takes us over two years to roll our a new Service Pack to all our stores!
We used to have just cash registers and a branch server. Now theres digital signage, beacons, cameras, sensors, WiFi for the customers, you name it!
12 Making The Retail Admin Happy ...
Make it easy to fully automate rolling out hundreds or thousands of stores with Salt
Scale to 50,000 managed nodes and more!
Highly scalable distributed Monitoring with Salt, Prometheus, and Grafana
Multi-OS support
Offline capabilities for the store
Bandwidth management
Take the pain out of patching (test in the labs, roll out in waves)
13 … And Also The Application Teams:
Provide a solid, fully remote-manageable HA Virtual Machine (and later Container) runtime in the store
Handle deployment of VMs and containers to the stores
Hook into IoT frameworks like EdgeX for both management and monitoring
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15 Content Lifecycle Management
DEV QA PROD
16 17 18 19 Monitoring
Dashboard Prometheus
20 Tech Preview! SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for SAP (HANA)
21 Virtualization Management
Salt SUSE Manager
22 Extending OS Support
• Ubuntu LTS (in 3.2.6/3.2.7) • openSUSE Leap 42.3 and 15 CentOS 6, 7, 8
23 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 Base Product
• Consistent with other SLE-based products like SLES for SAP Applications • One compact installation medium for all
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27 Scalability And Performance
• Numerous performance & scalability improvements • Groundwork for Hub setups Hub
Server Server
Proxy Proxy Proxy
Client Client Client Client Client Client Client
28 UI/UX Improvements
• Numerous improvements
• Focused on SUSE® Linux Enterprise for SAP & Public Cloud use cases • Mass-onboarding of passwordless clients • Quick Start guides
29 Cluster Awareness
• Cluster awareness framework
• First integration: SUSE® Container as a Service Platform
30 Virtualization Management
• Multi-tenancy distributed virtualization management Reference Architecture • AutoYast booting, PXE support • Advanced VM performance configuration (mostly for SUSE® Linux Enterprise for SAP
31 Patch Automation
• Define Patch windows • Automate patching
32 Miscellaneous
• SUSE® Linux Enterprise 15 x86_64 image building support (Retail) • Better support for Small Branch operations (Retail) • Monitoring improvements
33 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Base Product
4.0 15 SP1 4.1 3.2 15 SP2 12 SP3 4.2 12 SP4 15 SP3 5.0 x
Long Term Service Pack Overlap Support (LTSS)
Expanded Service Pack Overlap Support (ESPOS)
34 Additional Supported Platforms
openSUSE Leap 15.2
CentOS 6/7/8
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
OEL 7/8
RHEL 8 modular repository support
Stretch goals: Debian, Amazon Linux 2
35 Beyond SUSE® Manager 4.1
36 Beyond 4.1
Cluster awareness Additional clusters (SUSE® Enterprise Storage, SUSE® Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, Virtualization) Additional Functionality
Scalability (Hub functionality)
Fully containerized (5.0)
37 SUSE Manager
2019 2020 2021 2022 4.0 4.1 4.2
4.0 4.1 4.2 Configuration Management UI/UX improvements (SAP and Public Cloud) Configuration Management • Content (patch) staging UI & improved API • Config drift management Configuration Management • Fully integrate Terraform and a Git backend • Templates for HA cluster and SAP • Support for cluster orchestration (SDI [& HA]) workload setup** • CI/CD Integration with existing Terraform and Git instances Product Integration & • More examples and templates Product Integration & • Content staging to include configuration channels Supported Platforms Supported Platforms • Edge IT/IoT device management • Integration with SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 Product Integration & Supported Platforms • Salt-based next generation bare metal • Single sign-on support • Cluster awareness installation framework • openSUSE Leap support • CentOS, OEL support • Basic management of Windows clients SDI Management SDI Management Security & Compliance Maintenance windows & patch automation** • Improved virtualization management** • Salt-based security audit & remediation Improved virtualization management Monitoring Monitoring SDI Management • Complete Prometheus-based • Grafana dashboard plugins for SUSE CaaS Platform (& SUSE Enterprise Storage) • Multi-cloud capabilities monitoring stack** • Powerful virtualization management for large distributed environments • Optimized for Edge IT management Subscription Management Based on SLES 15 SP2 • Public cloud data gatherer Monitoring & Trouble Shooting Based on SLES 15 SP1 • Provide actionable insights from data correlation • Automated remote support data collection
Based on SLES 15 SP3
Information is forward looking and subject to change at any time. 38 Roadmap – Retail Point Of Service Products 2019 2020 2021 2022
4.0 4.1 4.2 SUSE Manager for Retail 4.0 4.1 4.2 1 2 3 General General General • Usability improvements • Image management over WiFi • Management of store IoT devices • Offline store capability • Enhanced support for server-less stores • Multi-cast support • Support for low bandwidth environments • Build templates for SLES 15 POS clients • Multi-OS management support • Support for very large scale environments SDI Management (openSUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS) • Edge IT infrastructure management • Build templates for SLES 12 SP4 POS SDI Management • Improved hardware asset management Clients • Advanced VM management • Software Asset Intelligence • Improved scalability SDI Management Monitoring Monitoring
Basic VM management • Support for store infrastructure monitoring Advanced monitoring capabilities
Monitoring Log management
Prometheus/Grafana based Alerting monitoring 2019 2020 2021 2022 12 SP4 15 SP2 15 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Clients 12 SP4 15 SP2 15 SP3
Base OS Base OS Base OS • Significant hardware enablement, including graphics • Significant hardware enablement • Significant hardware enablement • Full backward compatibility on application level • Starting with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
Life Cycle Life Cycle Life Cycle • Long-term support included • Long-term support included • Long-term support included
39 1 * Information is forward looking and subject to change at any time. * Base OS: 1 – SLES 15 SP1, 2 – SLES 15 SP2, 3 – SLES 15 SP3 Q&A
40 General Disclaimer
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