SUSE® , the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime and NeuVector Prime, announced enhancements to its cloud native and edge portfolio to enable customers to deploy and manage securely support critical workloads anywhere in the world. New features in Rancher Prime 3.0, SUSE’s commercial offering for Rancher – the industry’s most widely adopted open source container management platform – and SUSE Edge 3.0 help deliver secure platforms with 100% solutions open source, and are part of SUSE’s vision of giving freedom of choice to its customers.
“At SUSE, we give equal importance to our commercial and open source users,” said Peter Smails , general manager of SUSE’s Enterprise Container Management division. As such, our mission is two-fold: we must provide the capabilities our customers need to deploy and manage their critical production workloads, while continuing to invest in innovation to support and grow our enormous user community open source. Today’s announcement addresses both needs. »
Security and lifecycle management , enabling self-service PaaS with Rancher Prime
New features in Rancher Prime 3.0 help platform engineering teams deliver self-service Platform as a Service (PaaS) to their developer communities and improve management of AI workloads.
Here are the new improvements in Rancher Prime 3.0:
- Enhanced secure software supply chain with SLSA Certification and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) that provides businesses with reliable delivery.
- Updated software lifecycle management that delivers consistent, repeatable releases closely aligned with the Kubernetes upstream lifecycle.
- General availability of Cluster API and new cluster classes that enable platform engineering teams to deliver self-service PaaS, allowing them to automate and accelerate the conversion of code to production.
- General availability of the Rancher Prime App Collection which delivers open source applications through a single, reliable, enterprise-grade distribution platform.
- Enhancements to RKE2 and K3s certified Kubernetes distributions to automatically detect/configure use of NVIDIA container runtimes, simplifying deployment of AI/ML workloads.
SUSE is also launching Ranche Enterprise, a single package and price for the entire Rancher Prime portfolio, including multi-cluster management, operating system management, virtual machine management, persistent storage and system SUSE certified Linux operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro.
Continued investment in innovation and the open source community
SUSE continues to invest in open source innovation across its cloud-native portfolio to support its large user community. The main improvements are as follows:
- Harvester 1.3.0: GPU cards support virtual GPU (vGPU) creation allowing users to assign a vGPU to one or more Harvester-created VMs and support for Arm in Technical Preview is now available.
- Longhorn 1.6.0: The latest technical preview update to Data Engine version 2.0 enables seamless backup and recovery of performance volume operations between version 1 and both data engines.
- RKE2 and K3s: Support for NVIDIA GPUs and full Arm support are now available.
- NeuVector Prime 5.3.0: New features include egress network connection visibility, GitOps automation, and expanded support for arm64 architectures.
SUSE Edge 3.0 extends the power of open source to the edge
Customer demands to deliver better experiences at the edge are growing rapidly. According to IDC, 25% of the company’s infrastructure spending will be dedicated to edge 1 . SUSE Edge 3.0 addresses these growing requirements by providing a validated, integrated and optimized software stack.
“The edge is the next frontier of innovation, but many organizations face challenges – knowing how to deploy at scale, limited resources, technical debt – to accelerate transformation to the edge,” said Keith Basil , general manager of the SUSE Edge division. The edge is essentially about putting business value and computing power where the customers and data are – that is, where it is most useful. SUSE Edge 3.0 is the solution teams need to deploy edge securely, confidently, and at scale to help them build and maintain their competitive advantage. »
SUSE Edge 3.0 is specially designed for the edge based on 100% open source SUSE and it offers:
- Fully integrated cloud-native edge platform: Increase the efficiency of your edge infrastructure.
- Enterprise-grade security: Comprehensive platform, data center-grade security for every edge device, everywhere.
- Scalability : Easily deploy and manage edge infrastructure from hundreds to tens of thousands of nodes.
“Rancher Prime allows us to manage everything underneath, right down to the server or at the edge. There are a number of other solutions, some of which may be better on specific parts of the chain, but SUSE Edge provides the complete chain, said Hans Zenth, technical project manager, R&D at Danelec. The fact that it offers a single point of contact has been an advantage. SUSE assumes full responsibility for the entire chain.
SOURCE: PRNewswire