SUSE Acquiring Rancher Labs

[andyprough]

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 ?

They sold SUSE for a cool $2.35 billion over a year ago, and their losses seem to be due to over-paying on an $8.8 billion purchase of an HP software division in 2017 that's been underperforming since. Nothing about their current financial mess has anything to do with SUSE I don't think. If anything, the sale of SUSE last year helped keep them afloat.

[jntesteves]

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.

Not out of the loop. When I said "I see no point in now running it on top of Kubernetes, it just doesn't seem to add anything of value for me." I mean Rancher 2, obviously. When migrating from Rancher 1 to Kubernetes, one might as well skip Rancher 2 completely. That's what we've done at work. Rancher 2 is fancy web-ui uselessness. Kinda conflicts with our DevOps-automation culture.