SUSE Acquiring Rancher Labs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SUSE Acquiring Rancher Labs

SUSE is upping their container game by acquiring Rancher Labs...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SUSE-Acquires-Rancher-Labs

[Slartifartblast]

Also in the news, It seems Suse's former owners are having a rather tough time of it, Microfocus have just posted a $1bn loss.

[eydee]

*YaST Labs now.

[mroche]

I did not see that one coming... This should be interesting. I wonder how SUSE will integrate and promote this among their customer base, and with their OS lines and toolchains.

Cheers,
Mike

[starshipeleven]

I did not see that one coming... This should be interesting. I wonder how SUSE will integrate and promote this among their customer base, and with their OS lines and toolchains.

Cheers,
Mike

Well, SUSE has been a certified platform for Kubernetes for a while https://www.suse.com/solutions/kubernetes/ and offers features based on it https://www.suse.com/products/cloud-...tion-platform/ while their "free version" OpenSUSE has things like project Kubic https://kubic.opensuse.org/ for easy creation and management of kubernetes clusters.

Buying off a startup that makes a good Kubernetes management infrastructure probably just means they are fed up with Kubeadm and want to roll their own.

[jntesteves]

I thought Rancher was dead technology people were migrating off of. It was originally a competitor to Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. Kubernetes won that fight. I see no point in now running it on top of Kubernetes, it just doesn't seem to add anything of value for me.

EDIT: I guess good timing for acquiring their assets for cheap.

[Degra]

I thought Rancher was dead technology people were migrating off of. It was originally a competitor to Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. Kubernetes won that fight. I see no point in now running it on top of Kubernetes, it just doesn't seem to add anything of value for me.

EDIT: I guess good timing for acquiring their assets for cheap.

You must be out of the loop.
Rancher 2 is based off of Kubernetes.
Rancher 2 is basically providing Kubernetes but extends that ecosystem with some more preinstalled and preconfigured things, which also makes Rancher 2 an easy to set up Kubernetes distribution.

Similar to Red Hat's OpenShift, which also used to be a Kubernetes competitor until OpenShift 3, when OpenShift integrated Kubernetes as its core technology and now just provides an easy-to-install and preconfigured Kubernetes cluster. With a fancy UI as their selling point, which successfully woos management into using OpenShift.

[andyprough]

Also in the news, It seems Suse's former owners are having a rather tough time of it, Microfocus have just posted a $1bn loss.

Seems irrelevant. Why don't you tell us how Novell is doing while you are at it?

[mroche]

Well, SUSE has been a certified platform for Kubernetes for a while https://www.suse.com/solutions/kubernetes/ and offers features based on it https://www.suse.com/products/cloud-...tion-platform/ while their "free version" OpenSUSE has things like project Kubic https://kubic.opensuse.org/ for easy creation and management of kubernetes clusters.

Buying off a startup that makes a good Kubernetes management infrastructure probably just means they are fed up with Kubeadm and want to roll their own.

I admit I don’t pay a lot of attention to the SUSE arena. I know they had some activity in the OpenStack space, but wasn’t aware of their K8s work. The more you know!

Cheers,
Mike

[Slartifartblast]

Seems irrelevant. Why don't you tell us how Novell is doing while you are at it?

Well as I'm sat here using OpenSUSE Leap right now and just recently changed all my OpenSUSE accounts over from Microfocus, it's rather relevant to OpenSUSE users don't you think ?

Do you live under a stone and not know about the recent divestment ?