What's up with SUSE?

March 11, 2021

What’s up with SUSE?

Picture Welcome to TriLug! 1.History of SUSE 2.SUSE Linux Distros 3.Other Products 4.Tease about Rancher

• Joined SUSE in March 2018 • Formerly with Western Digital, SanDisk, Fusion-io, SteelEye Tech.,Sun Microsystems, Lockheed • MS Computer Science, West Virginia • Attending TriLug since 2007 • Takes care of his wife's chickens....

Dwain Sims

Sales Engineer dsims@suse.com [email protected] +1 919-480-1774

SUSE is a German acronym for "Software und System-Entwicklung" (software and systems development).

Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was one of the earliest Liunx disros. (Slackware was initially based on SLS)

First true S.u.S.E. Liunx distro was 4.2, in 1996.

1992 to 2000 2001 to 2010 2011 to Present 2017 to Present Becoming strategic partner of From Linux Pioneer to The Pioneering Enabling an Always Open SAP and building a strong Software-Defined Years Data Center ecosystem Infrastructure and Edge

Important Milestones 1992 2010 2020 SUSE brings Linux to the Linux-based solution Acquires enterprise with AWS Rancher Labs

2020 2008 2019 Partnership with SUSE celebrates first year of Joint innovation with SAP EQT independence

10 SUSE Linux Distros

Long Term / Enterprise Slow (yearly?), small changes in sub releases

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⚫ Rolling

− OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch, ⚫ Regular Manjaro, Gentoo − Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian

⚫ Long Term

− OpenSUSE Leap, Ubuntu LTS, SUSE Linux Enterprise, RHEL, CentOS

Tick – Tock

● SUSE is following a Tick-Tock approach for releases.

Tick – odd versions

● Bugfixes and maintenance updates

● Improvements for existing features

● Feature parity with recent SUSE Linux Enterprise Release

● Selected features

Tock – even versions

● All from Tick-Release

● Kernel version bump

● Stack upgrade

"Railroad w atch"by mpclemens is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Lifecycle

SP5 LTSS

Ove SP4 rlap LTSS

Ove SP3 rlap LTSS

Ove SP2 rlap LTSS

Ove SP1 rlap LTSS

Ove GA rlap LTSS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031

• 13 years total lifecycle • Updates to next service pack (n+1) • Service Pack Overlap Support: 6 months • Long Term Service Pack Support: up to 3 years after generic end of support • SP6 under evaluation at time of SP5 decision Copyright © SUSE 2021 18 Other SUSE Products

Applications

SUSE Rancher Industry’s only platform to manage all Kubernetes distributions

Amazon Azure Google EKS AKS GKE Datacenter Edge 3rd Party

SUSE Linux Enterprise Product Family Industry’s only adaptable Linux operating system

SLE Desktop / POS SLES for SAP Applications SLE Micro Linux SUSE Manager SLE Server SLE HPC SLE Extensions

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Dev Datacenter Cloud Branch Edge A long lifecycle balances innovation and stability1

Year Year Year Year Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 10 11 12 13 15 GA ESPOS

15 SP 1 ESPOS

15 SP 2 ESPOS

15 SP 3 ESPOS

15 SP 4 ESPOS

15 SP 5 LTSS

Copyright © SUSE 2020 1Available for all SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 and 15 service packs. See www.suse.com/lifecycle for specific release and end of support dates. Automate SAP HANA System Replication to recover faster

Performance-optimized Cost-optimized

Chain Topology Scale out

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Containerized App 1 Containerized App 2 Containerized App 3

Platform Services (Build & Run)

Rancher Monitoring & Dashboards & Service Terraform Longhorn Catalog Alerts Observability Mesh Operator Storage

Security & Authentication Policy Enforcement & Governance RBAC, OPA, Pod Monitoring & CIS Centralized & Network Logging Benchmarking Audit Insert Image Policies Simplified Cluster Operations & Infrastructure Management (Run & Manage) Dashboard, Kubernetes version Advanced Infrastructure Cluster Templates & Node Pool Cluster Provisioning & Monitoring & management Monitoring & Alerting Config Enforcement Management Lifecycle Management Diagnostics

Amazon Azure Google EKS AKS GKE

Datacenter Cloud Dev Branch Edge Copyright © SUSE 2021 28 Resources https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-part-5/ https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/open-source/opensuse-leap-ready-be-new-centos https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-part-1/ https://www.opensuse.org/ https://rancher.com/ https://suse.com/lifecycle/

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