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“SUSE envisions several key use cases for its CaaS platform,
including the enablement of DevOps and microservices
implementations for faster and more automated application
releases across different infrastructure,” said Jay Lyman, principal
analyst, Cloud Management and Containers, for 451 Research.
“Organisations interested in enterprise-grade security, reliability
and scalability with containers are the ones most likely to be
interested in the SUSE CaaS Platform.”
Container platforms have proven their mettle for use in DevOps
use cases with their ability to provide a uniform microservices
platform between developers and ops teams. With containers,
DevOps teams can manage application lifecycles with
dramatically improved agility and efficiency.
Because of their small footprint and transient lifespan, the sheer
numbers of containers being deployed and the rate at which
their numbers shrink and grow is daunting.
To effectively manage large numbers of these dynamic
microservices within the enterprise requires sophisticated
automation and that is what SUSE CaaS Platform is offering.
Additionally, SUSE has a clear advantage over other container
management vendors because it integrates SUSE MicroOS,
which is a purpose-built operating system for containers and
microservices and offers security and efficiency natively.
SUSE CaaS Platform addresses another crucial need within data
centres – the convenience of consuming containers as a service
just as you would in a public cloud.
IT environments can now provide equivalent functionality but
within the secure confines of the data centre using infrastructure
that they own.
SUSE CaaS Platform allows for efficient utilisation of this
infrastructure while providing the automation needed at the
container layer for the DevOps teams.
“SUSE envisions several
key use cases for its CaaS
platform, including the
enablement of DevOps
and microservices
implementations
for faster and more
automated application
releases across different
infrastructure.”
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Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE CTO
Enterprise-grade container deployments within the data centre
place new demands on infrastructure provisioning as most new
container rollouts are being done on bare metal.
“At StackIQ, we put our HPC heritage of scale out bare metal
cluster provisioning to good use for building out container
deployments’” said Garima Thockchom of StackIQ which works
in partnership with SUSE.
“With Open Source Stacki organisations such as financial
institutions and wireless carriers, who have stringent provisioning
needs, are able to install, expand and upgrade their complex
clusters with hundreds of nodes in quite literally minutes and
with ease.
“These testimonials for a financial services company and a
wireless provider show in vivid colour how Stacki performed
complex cluster installs and expansions across the full bare
metal stack in production environments.
“So, with the growing use of containers within the
enterprise, push-button bare metal provisioning, which
has long been within the purview of HPC environments, is
becoming an increasingly important requirement in the
mainstream enterprise.
“Our partnership with SUSE has already been forged in a highly
demanding customer environment. We are particularly excited
about the announcement of SUSE CaaS Platform as it offers
enterprise-grade management and automation that is sorely
needed to ease container deployments.” ¡
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